Rubrics, Assessment and eProctoring in Education

The world is at a “seatbelt moment” with machine learning as it was when the basic safety device was imposed on the car industry in the 1960s and 70s, but so far, no one is installing the seat belts.

Academics will be trained to better detect cheating by students, following an explosion of referrals of commercial cheating websites to the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency

The annual Tracey Bretag Prize is for outstanding commitment to advancing the understanding and implementation of Academic Integrity measures, as part of a positive student experience. Open to Australian and New Zealand students, educators, and Higher Education groups in 2022.

A computer sciences class was told they would all be docked marks for academic misconduct because the alleged cheaters could not be found. The university has now apologised.

A new study and its methods provides a way to replace the current Year 12 structure with one that will help prepare senior school students for their journey into the future – whatever that may be.

Assessment schedules are under scrutiny across the four Australian Technology Network universities as they tackle the challenge of producing job-ready graduates who have been taught and tested in relevant ways.

Scrawled on bathroom walls at Monash University in Melbourne are advertisements in Chinese for essay writing services.

A forrmer NSW education minister argues for a better way to assess HSC candidates competing for a place at university.

Scalable Authentic Assessment in the Information Age
Cliff Ashford - Monash University

Reverting to paper tests should only be a stop-gap measure as keeping NAPLAN offline deprives students and teachers of the best data.

Students entering higher education are increasingly diverse, and their early experiences of assessment can play a significant role in shaping their self-efficacy, motivation and approaches to learn…

The troubled NAPLAN online system was rolled out to 1.5 million students despite earlier practice runs identifying log on failures and slowness in connecting.

Flinders University, the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia adjust policies

Serious cheating at the state’s two biggest universities was found at record levels last year, with students paying to have assignments done for them.

Interviews with students, tutors, tech workers and university administrators reveal the problems with online exam monitoring systems — but also show they're unlikely to go away.

About eight per cent of students admitted to taking an exam for someone else and 4.2 per cent admitted someone else had done their exam.

While the federal education minister calls for a 'back to basics' approach, an economics professor and a former NSW education minister argue our children need higher-order skills.

Chinese student Joyce Fung spent six months delving into the dark recesses of the lucrative essay cheating industry that she says is symptomatic of a deeper malaise in the lucrative education industry.

A Melbourne scientist has left his university after it started looking into allegations he had copied and republished the same research over and over again.

The NSW government wants a review of the ATAR as new research shows many people think it is unfair and puts too much stress on students

High stakes assessments are a physical, logistical, and technical challenge, but the payoffs for a successful implementation are huge. AWS gives us the ability…

Academic integrity is critical to every aspect of education and increasing breaches of academic integrity are raising concerns about the international reputation of higher education in Australia.

Now, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) is rolling out a national series of workshops to help higher education providers promote and protect academic integrity at their institutions, appointing the University of South Australia to lead the charge.

The number of students found to be cheating in assessments and exams at the University of NSW rocketed when it moved resources from deterring cheating to detecting it.