Transforming Assessment

Transforming Assessment is an ASCILITE SIG

We are about exploring assessment in higher education with a particular focus on use of technology to enhance the assessment of student learning (e-assessment).

Next event: Australasian Symposium on Programmatic Approaches to Assessment (19 Sep - full day - online - free).

Next webinar: Rethinking Assessment: A balancing act (1 Oct - 1 hour - online - free).

Transforming Assessment Webinars - now in our 16th year.

The 2025 season is underway... more sessions to be added soon!

Session start times: Please check each session page for time-zone converter links!

Webinars:

• How to participate in sessions
• Technical help & FAQs for webinars
• View over 150 recordings of past events from 2010 until now.

Partners and Joint Activities

• Australasian Symposium on Programmatic Approaches to Assessment (joint with HERDSA Assessment Quality SIG) 19 Sep 2025.
• Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) - we are the e-Assessment SIG!
• Assessment in Higher Education Network (AHE UK) conference review webinars since 2017 and joint sessions from 2021 to 2025
• e-Assessment Association (eAA) joint eAA Awards webinars in 2018 and 2020 to 2025.
• e-Exams Symposium - session recordings (held Sat 24 Nov 2018 in Melbourne, Australia).
• Special issue on e-Assessment - International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (2016) open access.
• Advance HE (Higher Education Academy UK) joint webinars showcasing work of HEA fellows and programs.
• e-Assessment Scotland - session archives for the 2013 and 2014 online conferences.

Acknowledgements

This work continues on a voluntary basis with thanks to in-kind support from the University of Canberra.

Previously, funding was provided by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Ltd, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations in the form of Professor Geoffrey Crisp's Fellowship (2009-2011) Read about the fellowship and download reports. From 2012 to 2013 we continued with in-kind support from RMIT University and the University of Queensland. Then between 2013-2014 work was supported by the Office for Learning and Teaching (Australian Government) through an Extension Grant. Between 2015 to 2024 we continued with in-kind support at various times from University of Queensland, Monash University, University of New South Wales and Macquarie University.

The views expressed in the Fellowship, grant activities, this website and our webinar sessions do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Government or the sponsoring institutions.