Australian Learning and Teaching Council Fellow aims for online assessment

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In 2006 the University of Adelaide's Professor Geoffrey Crisp was awarded a prestigious ALTC Associate Fellowship for excellence in learning and teaching - the only ALTC Fellowship that year for South Australia and one of eight Associate Fellowships awarded nationally.

The ALTC Fellowships are awarded to outstanding scholars who are respected advocates for excellence in learning and teaching in higher education.

Dr Crisp, who is Director of the University's Centre for Learning and Professional Development, used his 12-month Fellowship to research and develop online assessment for university students, and promote his findings to universities across Australia.

"There has been a significant amount of work undertaken recently on online learning but very little on online assessment," Dr Crisp said. "Our goal is to develop a database of examples of how academic staff can prepare interactive computer-based assessments across all major discipline areas. Online assessment is moving beyond the traditional multiple-choice question that is currently the predominant form of computer-based assessment and will provide much richer, authentic and meaningful assessment tasks for students."

Deputy Vice-Chancellor & Vice-President (Academic) of the University of Adelaide, Professor Fred McDougall said "We heartily congratulate Geoff Crisp on this prestigious and well-deserved award. The real beneficiaries will be students. This work will show academics across the country how diagnostic and formative assessment can be used to help students maximise the learning outcomes from their study time."

Dr Crisp has presented workshops at the University of Adelaide and universities across Australia on how to design interactive computer-based assessments.

For more information contact Professor Geoffrey Crisp.