Criteria
- Design-4: Provides students with constructive, actionable feedback on their performance and analyses assessment results to inform teaching practice
Front-weighting assessment so students know where they stand
In most courses I have taught in or reviewed, assessment weights rise across the term. The biggest and most-weighted task has been at the end, so students receive feedback on about half or less of their overall marks before the task that has the highest stakes. In redesigning PHCM9391 I tried to change this. The sequence is now front-weighted, so