GCETE: Graduate Certificate in Education (Tertiary Education): Tips for assessment

Within this course, you are asked to complete a wide range of assessable tasks. This is purposefully done to give you exposure to a wide range of assessment tasks and to help you think about the content and it’s application in different ways. Each task require a response in a slightly different way, from reflective responses, to essays through to presentations. 

Many of the assessments in this course have short or very specific word counts. Writing concisely is a skill that requires practice and is often quite different from our normal style. Some tips that may help you:

• Consider where it might be appropriate to use dot points
• Consider where it might be appropriate to use subheadings, or topic headings to keep your ideas clear and ordered
• Check back on the assessment instructions and rubric. Are you actually doing what has been asked of you, or have you gone off on a tangent?
• Don’t worry about long introductions like ‘this response will introduce the idea of pet ownership, the discuss the advantages, disadvantages and then look at the global data around the spread of pet ownership’ Just jump right into the important parts!
• Don’t be over descriptive if you don’t need to be.
• For the short 300 word tasks, don’t feel the need to be too formal in your writing style.
• If it’s a reflective piece, the use of ‘I’ or first person is completely fine.

The following resources are available to assist you in developing your response style and matching it with it’s appropriate purpose.

Federation Study Skills Website - Writing

Federation Study Skills Website - Assessment: Getting Started

Federation Study Skills Website - Assessment: Reflective Journal

Federation Study Skills Website - Assessment: Oral Presentations