Inspera Assessment: targeting critical thinking with auto mark questions

About this session

This session will provide you with tips for targeting aspects of critical thinking and assist with designing questions in Inspera that are automatically marked.
  
Inspera resources will be provided, including: 

• overview of tips for targeting aspects of critical thinking with automatically marked questions
• question set with annotated examples of automatically marked questions that target aspects of critical thinking. 

This session will also include some workshop time for you to access your Inspera question set, apply tips and edit existing questions or use different question types.

Example questions have been developed in partnership with Dr Adam La Caze from the School of Pharmacy. Tips shared with these questions are intended to be applicable across discipline areas.

Presenters

• eAssessment team, Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation

Who should attend

• Existing users of Inspera Assessment including staff supporting assessment items using Inspera
• Course coordinators 
• Lecturers 
• Learning designers.

Benefits of attending

This interactive session will enable participants to:

• explore tips to design Inspera assessment questions that target aspects of critical thinking with automatically marked questions 
• consider ideas to enhance cognitive engagement
• develop approaches for designing simple and complex Inspera questions, with and without using stimulus.