Ya-Ping (Amy) Hsiao

Utrecht Area, Netherlands Netherlands

Assessment Specialist at Tilburg University

Education

We act based on what we believe. Being a teacher, I believe in two things: i) peers can learn from each other if they know how, and ii) good assessment is the most effective way to improve education quality. Following the first belief, I focus on how to facilitate peer learning to promote learning effectiveness from a cognitive perspective. As for the second belief, in my current job as assessment expert I make instructors aware of the backwash effects of assessments and advise instructors on how to make good assessments based on the concept of constructive alignment. At this moment, I teach a UTQ module (University Teaching Qualification, Dutch: BKO) on educational assessment and give wo...