Brenda Smith on assessment and feedback
May 20, 2009
Video >> Brenda Smith: “In terms of the aims for the session, I really have three, and that’s to emphasise assessment for learning rather than of learning. “The second aim is really to engage the active engagement of students in the whole process of assessment and feedback, and that’s from the sort of the very …
Chris Rust on assessment and feedback
April 11, 2009
Video >> Chris Rust: “You don’t need to go to the literature and spend much time to find how important assessment is considered regarding learning and teaching in higher education. It probably took me five minutes to find these quotes, and there are many more saying the same thing. It is at the centre of …
Objective Structured Clinical Examinations OSCE – reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities within the Division of Nursing
January 29, 2009
Sally-Ann Bradley, Lorraine Roberts and Nicki Walsh: Background and significance: “Since the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (2001) was added as an amendment to the Disability Discrimination Act (1995), it has been unlawful for any educational institution to treat a disabled person ‘less favourably’ for a reason related to their disability. Educational institutions are …
Trigger exams: assessing decision making
April 14, 2008
Video >> Paul Crawford: “And we have innovative assessments, such as the DVD trigger examination, which I introduced with colleagues a year ago, and is evaluated really well. “If we’re going to assess students on their health communication, that’s not easy to do. You can’t really do that very easily within a school setting. So …
Assessing a portfolio of creative writing
June 13, 2005
Peter Howarth: Assessing a portfolio of creative writing “I joined the Department in 2000 and as part of my teaching, began a module on Modern Poetry. I knew that students wanted to do creative work quite strongly, and could be helped to write better and understand other poets better by doing so. But the problem …
How do you ensure everyone’s participating in practicals?
January 8, 2004
Video >> Chris: “Well that is something we have lots of experience with. I’ll start with this one. We run a lot of group projects and almost always get somebody who is self evidently not pulling their weight. “Now there are a number of ways you can deal with that. One way is that peer …
Assessing practical work
Video >> Audience: “I take your point about a group project being individually marked and who didn’t really pull their weight and who didn’t comprehend it. However it still allows students to just latch on to groups and come out with the data. When I mark a project I can only mark what they submitted. …
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