Tim Fawns

@timbocop

Teaching & researching faculty development & digital education (+ sometimes memory). Part of @Monash_Academy. Formerly @EdClinEd. Views my own.

Melbourne, Victoria research.monash.edu/en/persons/tim… Joined January 2008

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Tim Fawns @timbocop Sep 28, 2024

Who doesn’t love authentic assessment. But is it always good? Does it have magical properties? Or does it require careful negotiation of design considerations, purposes and trade-offs?

New open access paper
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
@margaret_bea @phillipdawson @JuusoNieminen..

www.tandfonline.com Authentic assessment: from panacea to criticality Authentic assessment is often positioned as an educational panacea, invoked in response to a broad range of complex problems. This paper considers authentic assessment in relation to three key chal...

Tim Fawns @timbocop Oct 25, 2024

New, badly-titled blog post..
"Bloomin’ GenAI: Program-level negotiation of unit-level learning outcomes and assessment parameters"

TLDR don't specify stuff to do with AI or collaboration in unit-level outcomes but do at program-level. Also, it's hard.
timfawns.com/bloomin-genai-…

timfawns.com Bloomin’ GenAI: Program-level negotiation of unit-level learning outcomes and assessment parameters... The first part of that title is as gratuitous as the second part is boring. Sorry about that. I was chatting to colleagues yesterday about learning outcomes, Bloom’s taxonomy and GenAI. And before...

Tim Fawns @timbocop Oct 20, 2024

Just spotted this tweet which tags a different Tim Fawns whose account has apparently been suspended. I wonder what he did.

Anyway, read our chapter for a different take on assessment! 😀 It's free and also good.

(with @JuusoNieminen)

Tim Fawns @timbocop Oct 17, 2024

I am proud to unveil my new assessment security framework.

Simple graphic with a long horizontal arrow labelled "student works on assessment". Above it there is a bi-directional arrow labelled "no restrictions" on the left and then on the right there is a section labelled "restrictions, secure process" with a vertical arrow pointing down to the first horizontal line.

Tim Fawns @timbocop Oct 16, 2024

You can't "ensure constructive alignment" because it depends on what students do. You can align learning outcomes, teaching & learning activities and assessment *within the design* but not within practice.