Interview with Professor Rick Glofcheski (The University Distinguished Teaching Awardee 2015) Professor Rick Glofcheski is well known for his remarkable achievements and unreserved commitment to excellence in teaching, learning and assessment. He has been the recipient of many teaching awards, [...]

Introduction In May 2015, CETL organized a successful international conference on Assessment for Learning in Higher Education featuring well-known keynote speakers, David Boud, Royce Sadler and John Biggs. Since that event, HKU colleagues have been leading the development of an edited [...]

Formative assessment (FA), defined as assessment activities that provide evidence about student achievement for teachers to make decisions about the next steps in instruction (Black & Wiliam, 2009), has been a very attractive idea to educators and policy makers. Ample research evidence has [...]

Assessment is at the centre of teaching and learning. The data that emanates from a typical assessment procedure will inform the teacher how well the student had achieved with regard to the learning outcomes of a particular learning process. Assessment on the one hand, and teaching and learning [...]

Each discipline speaks its specialized and technical language which outsiders may not easily comprehend. After graduating from the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL) programme more than two decades ago, one of the soft skills that we had to learn on the job as we went along, more often [...]

Assessment Special Interest Group, Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES) Assessment for learning within CAES is embedded into our assessment processes. The predominant feature of assessments at CAES is that they are designed to promote learning, both during and after the end of a course. [...]