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Abstracts
| Seminar 1: Innovative Assessment and Assessment for Learning |
Seminar 2: Teaching, Supervising and Providing Academic Advising to Students from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds |
| After four decades of publication of the seminal work of Black and Wiliam (1989), many research activities have been conducted to explore how assessment can be optimised in supporting learning and teaching. Often, these research have highlighted issues and challenges in implementing effective assessment strategies. In this session, I will critically analyse these issues, including personal, social-emotional, conceptual, paradigmatic, practical, contextual, structural, organisational, and policy contexts and leverage them to argue for the need to develop a more innovative approach to designing, enacting, and evaluating teachers’ assessment practices. I will argue what is innovative assessment in the current educational landscape and how we can better prepare students and teachers to effectively engage in any assessment activities. | As higher education institutions operate within a globalised marketplace for students and higher degree research students, the admission of culturally and linguistically diverse students requires a culturally responsive approach to teaching and supervision. In this session, I will argue for the need to adapt our approaches, underpinned by sociocultural consciousness and diversity awareness. I will present a framework that highlights our dispositions, knowledge, and skills in using students’ characteristics, experience, perspectives, and cultural backgrounds to inform the effectiveness of our teaching and supervision practices. I will conclude by offering some strategies on how to implement a culturally responsive higher degree research students’ supervision. |
| Date | 6 November 2024 (Wednesday) |
| Time | Seminar 1: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Seminar 2: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm |
| Venue | STEM Innovation Hub (C-LP-06) |
| Speaker | Dr. Dennis ALONZO Senior Lecturer University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia |
| Language | English |
| Target | For staff and postgraduate students |
Participation in these seminars can be counted towards the Certificate Course “Introduction to Teaching in Higher Education”under the theme “Learning and Teaching Seminars/Workshops”.
