Author: Ada Sharpe

Ada Sharpe, Ph.D. (English and Film Studies), has worked in faculty and support staff roles in the post-secondary sector for over a decade. She has taught and researched in literary studies and writing studies and co-led a university writing centre. Ada specializes in understanding how assessment shapes the teaching and learning experience for faculty and students.

April 8, 2024

In-Person Proctoring How-To’s

Reading Time: 4 minutes In-class proctored tests and exams offer the opportunity to measure student learning in the moment, under observation. These types of assessments can also present you...

Academic Integrity/Assessing Learning/Assessment Challenges/Assessment Quick Guides/In-person

April 1, 2024

Uses of Student Work: What You Can and Cannot Do

Reading Time: 2 minutes Students have intellectual rights under Canadian copyright law to the work they create during their post-secondary education. They also have privacy rights that mean student...

AI and Assessment/AI and Teaching/Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides/Student Rights and Responsibilities

March 12, 2024

Leveraging your slide deck, Part 2: Engaging students in the classroom

Reading Time: 5 minutes A slide deck can be the focus point of a lesson, presenting key information related to the week’s learning outcomes. A slide deck, however, is...

Active Learning and Engagement/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

February 13, 2024

Leveraging your slide deck, Part 1: Scaffolding assessments for student success

Reading Time: 5 minutes A slide deck can be the focus point of a lesson, presenting key information related to the week’s learning outcomes. A slide deck, however, is...

Active Learning and Engagement/Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides/Improving Assessments/Lesson and Course Planning/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching

January 23, 2024

Email Templates Responding to Suspected Student Use of Generative AI

Reading Time: 4 minutes In this Hub post, we will explore three scenarios in which you may need to contact students by email to express concern about suspected use...

Academic Integrity/AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning/Assessment Challenges/Assessment Quick Guides/Teaching

November 27, 2023

The Optional Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Assessments

Reading Time: 2 minutes Are you considering giving students a limited or optional use of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in completing an assessment in your course? Is knowledge of...

AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Teaching

November 21, 2023

Using Assessment Analysis Features on eConestoga

Reading Time: 3 minutes Recent updates to eConestoga mean all course shells now include three assessment analysis features visible only to faculty. These features provide valuable data on students’...

Assessing Learning/Improving Assessments

November 15, 2023

Academic Integrity and Assessment in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)

Reading Time: 4 minutes A fair and accurate assessment provides evidence of a student’s learning under their own cognitive efforts. Concerns around academic integrity, however, can cast doubt on an...

AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides/Getting Started with AI

June 19, 2023

Using Turnitin’s Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Detection Tool and the Process Guide for Navigating Potential Academic Offences

Reading Time: 4 minutes Generative AI (genAI) has brought new challenges, opportunities, and questions in terms of the assessment of student work. Large Language Models (LLMs), the technology that...

AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides/Teaching

June 19, 2023

Updating Rubrics to Prevent Grade Inflation

Reading Time: 2 minutes Grade inflation is a well-known phenomenon. Check out some thoughts and data from Harvard in Grade Inflation: What Goes Up Must Come Down. We must ensure that students receive grades that discriminate, in the best sense of the word, the degree to which they have attained the course outcomes. In a general...

Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides/Rubrics and Marking

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