Centre of Expertise for Higher Education search menu search content Quality multiple-choice exams without correction for guessing • May 2021 • Multiple-choice questions, and especially the way they're scored to compensate for guessing, have been intensely debated in higher education in recent ye…

Centre of Expertise for Higher Education search menu search content Students with functional disabilities Written in collaboration with the Study Advice and Student Counselling Service. There are many different categories of functional disabilities, particularly physical disabilities, chronic illnes…

Centre of Expertise for Higher Education search menu search content Socratic method: questions and answers A teaching and learning talk (i.e. the Socratic method) is a highly directive, structured dialogue in which the teacher uses targeted questions in the attempt to lead students to a particular i…

Centre of Expertise for Higher Education search menu search content Reliability of written examinations Teachers who administer written examinations to students obviously want to know whether the results of these examinations are ‘true’. A student’s score should reflect the extent to which the…