Join us to find out why authenticity matters
24 April 2025
Wednesday 4 June at 2pm
CRADLE Seminar Series 2025: Seminar #3
In this seminar CRADLE Fellow Dr Tim Chambers unpacks the results of his recent research investigating students’ perceptions in health psychology assessments. Tim will focus on how psychological authenticity may shape students’ perceptions of the meaning and value of assessments.
- When: Wednesday 4 June 2025
- Time: 2pm – 3.30pm (AEST)
- Where: Online and at Deakin Downtown
- Cost: This is a free event
The recent problematising of authentic assessments has resulted in a multitude of new perspectives that invite us to look beyond merely replicating real-world tasks and consider the meaning and purpose of these tasks and the context within which they are undertaken.
This seminar will focus on how psychological authenticity may shape students’ perceptions of the meaning and value of assessments.
Guided by self-determination theory, we propose that students make authentic judgements regarding the alignment between the assessment task and their personal values before then performing self-determined behaviours. Drawing on the experiences of first-year psychology students, Tim will showcase how they perceived authenticity within the context of health psychology assessments. Following this, Tim will reflect more broadly on students’ experiences with first-year assessments that resonate with being true to themselves.
Join us at Deakin Downtown or online for this compelling and topical seminar
About Tim Chambers
Dr Tim Chambers is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Deakin University. Tim is a Senior Fellow with Advance HE, a CRADLE Fellow, and teaches health psychology into undergraduate courses at Deakin.
His discipline research interests include utilising qualitative methodologies to investigate the intersection of physical and mental health benefits of exercise for individuals along the recreation to high-performance continuum that reveals the complexities of individual experiences.
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