Assessment types
This list of assessment types is incorporated as Appendix A of the JCU Subject Outline Guide (PDF, 527 KB).
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Bold text indicates that the assessment type is located in more than one genre, e.g. presentation – research; presentation – industry, community.
Research
- Abstract
- Annotated bibliography
- Critical appraisal
- Journal article
- Literature review
- Poster
- Presentation – research
- Proposal
- Biosafety
- Ethics
- Grant
- Research
- Protocol – research
- Report – research
- Thesis/dissertation
Definitions – Research assessment types
Academic (written)
- Concept map
- Critical reading task
- Critical review/critical response
- Essay (including multi-draft)
- Glossary
- Preparation – tutorial/workshop
- Problem task
Definitions – Academic (written) assessment types
Academic (oral)
- Debate
- Guided discussion
- Oral critique
- Participation – tutorial/in-class
- Presentation – in-class
- Tutorial submission
- Viva voce/oral defense
Definitions – Academic (oral) assessment types
Digital
- Blog
- eBook
- ePoster
- Participation – discussion forum/online
- Podcast
- Presentation
- Narrated slideshow/digital story
- Pecha Kucha
- Video
- Production – multi/blended media
- Slowmation
- Wiki
Definitions – Digital assessment types
Work integrated/professional practice
- Brief/Briefing paper – committee, policy, other
- Case study analysis
- Client response
- Critical incident analysis
- Elevator pitch
- Ethical dilemma
- Internship performance
- Interview
- Job application
- Journal – laboratory, field, WIL, reflective, other
- Learning contract/ negotiated assessment
- Letter
- Log/logbook
- Manual
- Media article
- Memorandum
- Minutes
- Mooting/moot court
- Notes
- Case, clinical
- Field
- Observations
- Peer review/peer assessment
- Placement/professional experience performance
- Plan
- Action
- Business
- Project
- Teaching lesson/unit
- Portfolio – electronic, other
- Preparation – prelab
- Presentation – industry, community
- Proposal
- Business
- Project
- Reflection/reflective task
- Report
- Analytical, statistical
- Business
- Case
- Design
- Field
- Laboratory/ scientific
- Project
- Technical
- Role play
- Scenario-based learning activity
- Self-assessment/self-review
- Simulation activity
- Teamwork (process)
- Workbook
Definitions – Work Integrated/Professional practice assessment types
Design/creative
- Creative performance
- Creative work
- Creative work – recorded, rendered
- Design
- Exhibition
- Manufactured component
- Model
- Prototype
- Software
- Website
Definitions – Design/creative assessment types
Clinical performance
- Clinical assessment
- Clinical evaluation exercise (CEX)
- Directly observed procedural skills (DOPS)
- Long case
- Mini-clinical evaluation exercise (mini-CEX)
- Multi-station assessment task (MSAT)
- Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE)
- Practical assessment (the ‘Spot’ test)
Definitions – Clinical performance assessment types
Examination or quiz
- Examination
- Centrally administered/end-of-study period
- In-class
- Medication calculation
- Online
- Practical/skills demonstration (laboratory, studio, field, other)
- Take home
- Quiz/test
- In-class
- Online
Question type
- Yes/No questions
- True/False questions
- Multiple choice questions (MCQs)
- Extended Matching Questions (EMQs)
- Key Feature Questions (KFQs)/Problems
- Problems/computational questions
- Short-answer questions (SAQs)
- Extended or long-answer questions