Assessment in Higher Education

A free, open, online course and community

Friday, May 8, 2015

Introductions

Participating and asking questions/marking comments:Normally your microphone and webcam will not be enabled during the webinar. You can do the following:

Type your answers into the polling pod and when requested

B Using the status tool

The Webinar host can then enable your microphone option

2. Select required status

3. Click on the mic icon to speak

1. Click on your status

Using audio (if you have a microphone)D

AType your questions and/or comments into the Chat pod

Using the Chat pod Using short answer poling podC

2. Select raise hand

1. Click on your status

Using the MCQ poling podC

Useful features

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Use the polling pod to tell us: Who you are?Where you are from?And briefly why you have joined the course?

2 minutes

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What is the course for?

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Format

Six weeks duration

Each week:•One question•One task

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Discussions are supported by suggested readings – please share others you know about or find

Weekly Topics1. What makes a good choice of

assignment task in higher education?

2. What do you need to consider when designing an assignment task?

3. What support do students need when preparing for an assignment?

4. What should marking criteria look like and how should we use them?

5. What is feedback for?

6. What can we learn from reflecting on past assignments?Friday, May 8, 2015

Technology

• Wordpress blog for key information

• Wordpress blog posts to initiate weekly discussion activities

• Use your preferred tools to share documents and files with us. We will post file to Wordpress on your behalf on password protected page.

• Twitter for updates/tweetchats

• Adobe connect for webinars

Working Groups

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Questions? Suggestions? Contributions?

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Topic 1: What makes a good assignment task in Higher Education?

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Task 1 Analyse an assignment you are familiar with (as student or tutor)

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• Is it well aligned to the intended learning outcomes? • Are you always happy with the submission(s)? • Is the teaching of the course planned effectively to prepare

the students to complete the assignment task? • Is there anything you would do differently?

1. Download the template from the Wordpress site (use any alternative reflective format that you like).

2. Email your reflections to Rachel, Rod and/or Anne 3. We will then add these to a password-protected page on

this site.4. Read and comment upon other peoples reflections

Questions? Suggestions? Contributions?

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What makes a good choice of assignment task?

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• Can you think of an assignment task that you particularly enjoyed completing during your studies?

• What kinds of assignment tasks do you most enjoy marking?

• Which tasks enable your students to best demonstrate their progress?

• Which tasks help students to develop transferable skills?• Do you always have enough time to complete the marking

properly?