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The ATN Assessment Conference 2008 will be held at on 20-21 November at the University of South Australia in Adelaide.
"The theme of engaging students in assessment is an opportunity to explore assessment in the context of an increased focus on student engagement and recognition of the increasing diversity of student cohorts.
The conference provides participants with the opportunity to explore ways to maximise student engagement through effective assessment policies, procedures and practices. Participants will engage with colleagues across disciplines as well as students and employers.
Topics will include:
- Transforming assessment and feedback for student engagement
- Cultural and academic diversity: designing assessment to engage all students
- Discipline-based practices in engaging students in assessment
- Using technology to enhance engagement in assessment.
The ATNConference08 committee is calling for for YOUR contributions to what is shaping up to be an exciting conference with some highly-regarded national and international keynote speakers (details soon).
The key dates for papers are:
Call for papers: May 2008
Abstracts due: 1 June, 2008
Notice of acceptance: 20 June, 2008
Full papers due: 18 August 2008
The conference will be held within the landmark new UniSA Hawke Building, City West Campus, North Terrace, Adelaide."*
Campus-Wide Information Systems have agreed to publish a special issue based upon the conference, which will be guest edited by Dr Diana Quinn and myself. The issue will focus on the theme of using technology to enhance engagement in assessment.* The quoted text is from the conference web page
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