David Royce Sadler is Senior Assessment Scholar in School of Education at The University of Queensland, and also Professor Emeritus in Higher Education at Griffith University.

Professor Sadler will be presenting a keynote presentation entitled “Making assessment work more effectively for improving student learning”.

University teachers know that feedback has at best a patchy and modest impact on improving learning. This is because feedback is predominantly about telling students about the quality of their work, and basically employs the transmission model of teaching. Students need to become better at monitoring the quality of their own work during its actual production. That is when it really matters, but it requires a very different model of teaching. We have to educate students in how to make sound judgments about complex ‘objects’. A key part of that involves, among other things, operating outside the structures of prescribed criteria and standards (rubrics).

This exciting event will take place on 2 December , as a part of our annual Flinders Celebration of Excellence and Innovation in Teaching in the Health Sciences building, in the outside foyer from Room 1.09 commencing at 12 noon.

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