Assessment Forms
Assessment Forms
Assessment can be made of different methods, depending on the type and domain of study. Typically, on any credit-bearing courses, the expectation is to have a combination of assessment methods. The main forms of course assessment are:
- Examinations establish the extent student have learned from the whole course by addressing your knowledge competencies of issues, concepts, theories and contexts related to domains of study.
- Class Tests share primary features of the Examinations but the focus is on specific rather than general concerns. Conventionally, these tests utilize atypical methods of assessment to evaluate applied understanding. The tools of such method of assessment can vary from one theme to another.
- Essays are a formal written work responding to a specific one or a combination of questions, where the purpose of them is to evaluate the ability to articulate the essentials of a selected domain of study. Students are expected to call for conceptual understanding from within a coherent framework by using key ideas, arguments, evidence and case related examples as well as creative thought development.
- Presentations are one of the key methods of collaboration that engages the student with her/his classmates. It is meant to assess student’s ability to summarize significant ideas and issues and to engage classmates in debates and productive discussion of the key questions addressed by the case in hand.
- Production or Performance pieces are aimed at providing a form for a process of critical creativity, involving investigative research and practice-related understanding of the character of the processes and structures of the medium and domain of mass communication and media. This is demonstrated through a number of courses particularly the ones that are coded with 497 and 499.
- Projects & reports are aimed to examine student’s capacity to integrate a researched topic and present evidence of understanding of the primary concepts through applied and sustained case-study analysis.
- Flipped Classrooms are a new type of assessment that takes place during the semester. It involves having students preparing a recorded session on computer or mobile about a particular theme and placing it on a virtual platform for their classmates (as well as course Instructor) to provide constructive and measured feedback on the input and output of the performance.
Flipped Session by Batoul Jundi (Year 2) about Cultural Hegemony
Flipped Session by Ali Houmanii (Year 2) about Uses and Gratification
Flipped Session by Rayan Sayed (Year 2) about Research Methods