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This collection highlights diverse assessment and feedback practices across Trinity’s academic disciplines. From open-book assignments and video presentations to online trading games and MCQ exams, each case study features a Trinity educator sharing their real-world experiences, insights, and reflections. Explore how innovative, subject-specific approaches are enhancing student learning and engagement across the university.
Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) Online Exams-Electronic & Electrical Engineering
Dr Enda Bates, Assistant Professor and deputy director of the Music and Media Technologies programme, talks about his experience of using multiple choice question (MCQ) online exams within a module on Spatial Audio.
Open Book Assignments - Pharmacy
Dr Cicely Roche is an Associate Professor in practice of Pharmacy and co-ordinator of online modules completed by students when on experiential placement in the final 2 years of the MPharm programme in Trinity College Dublin.
Online Trading Game - Trinity School of Business
Dr Martha O Hagan Luff is an Associate Professor in the Trinity Business School. Here she talks about her experience of setting up an Online trading game as part of the BU7803 Investment Theory for the MSc in Law and Finance class.
Combined Assessment - Psychiatry, TTMI and TCIN PI
Dr Daniela Tropea is an Associate Professor in Molecular Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, TTMI & TCIN. She discusses combined assessment as part of the PRU33002 module in the BSc Human Health & Disease programme.
One-Minute Elevator Pitch Video Assignment - (Presentation)
Allyson Lambert, creativity specialist and Programme Coordinator at Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace, shares her experience of a one-minute elevator pitch video assignment in the Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Thinking.
Engineering Summative Assessment Online-Mechanical, Manufacturing & Biomedical
Prof Ciaran Simms is a Biomechanics Professor in Mechanical, Manufacturing & Biomedical Engineering. He shares his experience using online summative assessment for the 3rd year Mechanics of Machines and 4th year Multibody Dynamics modules.
Audiovisual Animation Tools - Physiology and TCIN
Dr Eric Downer, Associate Professor in Human Health and Disease, Physiology, shares his experience using audiovisual animation tools in a Human Developmental Embryology module for the BSc in Human Health and Disease.
Presentations in Digital Learning - French
Dr Niall Kennedy, teaching fellow in the Department of French, shares his experience using presentations in digital learning for SF Political Thought in France, SF Modern French Literature, and SF Linguistics 1 modules.
Administering OSCEs online - Clinical Speech and Language Studies
Dr Duana Quigley and Dr Julie Regan, Practice Education Coordinator & Assistant Professor in Speech and Language Pathology, share their experience administering OSCEs online in an undergraduate speech and language therapy programme.
Using Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning at Trinity Business School
Prof Martin Fellenz, Associate Professor at Trinity Business School, shares an assessment approach that uses individual contributions to group projects to build skills in self-generated feedback, as well as giving and receiving peer feedback.
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)Project - Radiation Therapy
Dr Anita O Donovan is an Assistant Professor in the department of Radiation Therapy. Here she talks about an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Project as part of the final year RTU44003 module in the BSc in Radiation Therapy.
Blogs as an assessment method – Geography
Dr Cian O Callaghan is an Assistant Professor in the department of Geography. Here he talks about using blogs as an assessment method for his third year students in the Urban Economic Structure and Regeneration module.