Confidence-based marking quick answer questions for clinical diagnosis

Confidence-based marking is a way to encourage students to think about how confident they are with their answer to a question. Positive and negative marking is used to award more marks for correct answers given with confidence and less marks for incorrect marks with a high degree of confidence that the answer was correct.

Gill Harrison from the division of Radiography and Midwifery explains how she uses confidence-based marking  in class and within Moodle to encourage student self-assessment of their diagnostic skills.

Collaboratively building exam model answers using Sharepoint

Elliot Freeman, Department of  Psychology

With ever-increasing undergraduate student numbers, individual students can become lost in the crowd, and high assessment workloads make it difficult to provide sufficient feedback on students’ performance. To reduce workload, Elliot replaced some traditional exam essays on his second-year Visual Perception module with short-answer questions. He then coached his students on this new format and decided to provide new weekly workshops to engage students.

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