Abstract

SMART Assessment Hub as a project serves to provide faculty development support on fine-tuning of assessment practices for graduate success in the 21st century.  This includes how assessment tasks (traditional and technology-mediated) are designed to enable knowledge formation and knowledge building, and how to develop academic and transferable skills through a variety of assessment tasks, including technology; faculty members have an opportunity to gain greater understanding of the process to communicate learning expectations through using rubrics in criteria referenced assessment, and varied types of feedback for learning engagement.  To build assessment literacy in the community, faculty staff with teaching responsibility is invited to a variety of professional development activities offered by experienced faculty staff and international experts on assessment.  Second, effective assessment practices in disciplines in the university are collected and shared to the public through the project.  As assessment design has direct influence on how students prepare and perform in different assessment tasks, SMART Assessment Hub serves to provide student support to heighten the awareness of planning for and applying a variety of assessment strategies to develop academic and professional competence beyond a course assignment.  This includes inviting students to participate in the ‘2+1’ learning community, in which students will form buddy groups to plan and report active learning strategies used for assessment.