Assessment for Learning: capturing the interest of diverse students on an academic writing module in postgraduate vocational education

What is it about?

This article was driven by our desire to overcome the barriers to learning experienced by students from diverse back grounds. It built on the principles that we established in our previous co-authored paper “Painting the bigger picture: academic literacy in postgraduate education” (Strauss and Mooney, 2011). It incorporated an intersectionality approach to embedding literacy competencies in assessments based on student’s own original research projects.

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Why is it important?

It offers practical guidelines from teaching a class composed of post graduate students from diverse backgrounds. We received a AUT Faculty Innovation in Teaching Award (2015) for the establishment of that particular teaching approach, based on Assessment for Learning (AfL) principles.