Phil Race

500 Tips on Assessment

1. Putting assessment into context 2. Exams of various sorts 3. Specific assessment formats 4. Feedback and assessment 5. Involving students in their own assessment 6. Assessing group learning

Essential Tips for Organizing Conferences & Events

Part 1: Initiating the event: early decisions Why are you planning a conference or event? Choosing themes Intended conference outcomes. Part 2: Choosing the right type of event: What sort of event are you planning? When is a conference the best choice

Keeping Your Training Sessions Going

This chapter is mainly about training session processes, though we have anticipated our discussion of many of these already in this book. We start by reflecting on the importance of active learning and designing training sessions around what participants will actually do rather than around things we may tell them!

Evaluating your Training Sessions

The main way we get better at things is by finding out more about what goes right and what goes wrong. It is all too easy to be so busy planning our next training sessions that we shelve the task of really finding out how our last ones went. We often go as far as collecting feedback, but never really analyze it.

Using Things Around You

Our suggestions in this chapter are mainly about training resources and the training environment. We start by looking at the importance of the accommodation that participants themselves will use during training sessions. and the effect of this environment on how they feel and how they perform during the sessions.