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9. What are clearly not great designs?

• Activity is for assessment purposes alone

• Measurement rather than development of learning is emphasised

• Encourages short-term performance at expense of long term learning

• Low student involvement in processes

• Reliability is emphasised over validity

• Promotes learning that is not conducive to building learning skills or encourages inappropriate learning (ie. negative backwash effect)

• Encourages over-dependence on the judgments of assessors/teachers

• Outcomes are not transparent (eg. results are coded in percentages or marks not grounded in criteria)