1. Six assessment challenges for students unfamiliar with assessment practices
1. Lack of local cultural knowledge 2. Unintentional cheating 3. Tutorial participation 4. Group work 5. English language skills 6. Oral presentations
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1. Lack of local cultural knowledge
Assignments exclusively based on local content or issues are likely to be disadvantage to many international students.
Provide options to use their knowledge in some assessments- give choice of culturally diverse topics of assessment
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3. 2. Unintentional cheating/ plagiarism
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2. Unintentional cheating/ plagiarism
Common issue for international & domestic students.
Some educational settings (outside Australian Higher Education):- More closely the student can replicate the work/words of an expert—the greater the student learning/ mastery of the subject/topic is considered.
But this is not the case in Australian Higher Education
Provide support/ resources to develop the required skills
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4. 3. Tutorial participation
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3. Tutorial participation
Some international students often are reluctant to participate in the tutorial due to the lack of confidence, language skills or shyness.
Or over-riding factors like
Being unsure of the implicit social conventions for turn-taking in group discussion
Feeling hesitant to interrupt another speaker and causing offence or embarrassment.
Suggestions: make the expectation clear & unambiguous; use “icebreakers”; use open-ended questions, Ensure you show value to all answers.
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4. Group work
When international students are left to gain membership to the group on their own- Many international students face subtleties in approaching a group.
International students may end up in a group with NO local student- thus making a group as a whole that Puzzles about What to do.
All students should be given the opportunity to work with students from different background & be benefited.
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6. 5. English Language Skills
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5. English Language Skills
Irrespective of having high scores in English Language test IELTS/TOEFL)- students may have difficulty understanding spoken/written language.
Wording in exam/test papers need careful attention- words may seem to be clear to native speaker but they can be highly ambiguous to Non-English Speaking Backgrounds)
Provide them some time to adjust with Australian accent.
Encourage the students to read as much as they can in English (newspaper/magazine/ academic text..) & also listening to Radio & have conversation in English in campus/with friends & families.
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6. Oral Presentations
Many international students find oral presentations a very difficult- (lack of confidence, language skills or shyness).
Providing information on the requirements will help students both international as well as domestic.
Need of rehearsal should be emphasised
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