Volume: 2 Issue: 1
Year: 2025, Page: 1-8, Doi: https://doi.org/10.70372/jetlp.v2i1.1
Designing assessments to meet the learning objectives is an ever-evolving challenge. The assessments also have to be a process of learning for the students. Designing effective assessments for Generation-Z also needs out-of-box thinking. To cater to the needs of Gen-Z, a weeklong technical fun week was designed. Techno-Fun week was a proper mixture of technical details of the course along with the fun elements. The activities ranged from coding contests, puzzles, treasure hunt, assignments, meme creation contest, etc. The fun week had several elements to put together as a week-long activity. The activities were on the level of Advanced and Hard aiming the higher order level of thinking. The week activities were relatively graded and were scaled down to three marks as a part of their course assessments. This paper deliberates on the need of such activities, potential ways and challenges to incorporate in the semester tenure. For the Techno-Fun week conducted, descriptive statistics and student feedback is presented. This method proves to be effective in engaging students and also aiding in the process of learning.
Keywords: assessments; higher-order; learning; techno-fun
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