Negotiating reasonable adjustments for online exams
June 26, 2007
Video >> Kate: “One of the things that I know you have been involved with is the development and introduction of online assessments, online exams. Can you tell us a little bit about what you do with the online exams?” Simon Wilkinson, Medical Education Unit: “Yes, well, in the unit I’ve been developing the software …
Feedback on exams: 1 to 1 tutorials in Geography
Video >> Bob Dugdale, Geography: “Normally we give them their numeric marks as soon as we can after the exams. There’s a prepared sheet for each module which gives them the actual exam questions they answered and the mark they got for that, so by the end of each Semester they – or shortly after …
Dyslexic students and exams: giving effective feedback on performance
June 18, 2007
Video >> Kate: “What are the common problems that you hear about in relation to the formal written examinations as faced by a dyslexic student?” Barbara Taylor: “A number of my students sit with me and actually go through past papers as part of their preparation for exams. They are really anxious about answering the …
Assessment: in class multiple-choice
January 31, 2007
Video >> Julian: “If they are making any errors of description then we can talk them through ‘that’s not really the gizzard that’s the ovary’. So talking them through and helping it, at the end of it we get a multiple choice questionnaire which we ask them to complete, based on both the lab and …
Jude Carroll on plagiarism
January 17, 2006
Video >> Jude Carroll: “And what’s interesting about the question “Are any of these people plagiarists?” is actually that question is “What do you mean by the words that are in this definition?”. And one of the things that I think is very interesting is that the definition of plagiarism is not a platonic ideal …
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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