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Rethining assessment practices…
AL Conference, 21st November 2009Gráinne Conole, IET
Review of assessment practices Factors
◦ Open Educational Resources◦ Technology-enhanced learning◦ Shift of focus from content to activities
OU students do more assessment eAssessment
◦ Available 24/7◦ Instant feedback◦ Different question types to support different
pedagogical strategies
Context
eAssessment in the OU VLE
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Intelligent Assessment
STACK
Empower Engage students actively in identifying or formulating criteria Facilitate opportunities for self-assessment and reflection Deliver feedback that helps students self-correct Provide opportunities for feedback dialogue (peer and tutor-
student) Encourage positive motivational beliefs and self-esteem Provide opportunities to apply what is learned in new tasks Yield information that teachers can use to help shape teaching Engage Capture sufficient study time and effort in and out of class Distribute students’ effort evenly across topics and weeks. Engage students in deep not just shallow learning activity Communicates clear and high expectations to students.
REAP principles
Do we over assess?◦ From a student perspective◦ From a tutor perspective
How do we build in variability? ◦ Alternatives to 3000-word essay
Right ratio of TMAs to ECAs to exams? Should we move to awards-based assessment?
◦ If so, how?
Discussion
Types of activities◦ Assimilative (attending and understanding content), ◦ Information handling (e.g. gathering and classifying
resources or manipulating data), ◦ Adaptive (use of modelling or simulation software), ◦ Communicative (dialogic activities, e.g. pair dialogues
or group-based discussions), ◦ Productive (construction of an artefact such as a
written essay, new chemical compound or a sculpture) and
◦ Experiential (practising skills in a particular context or undertaking an investigation).
◦ Assessment (diagnostic, formative, summative)
Think exercise…
Map of student tasks to time periods (weeks, semesters, etc)
Six types of student tasks + assessment
Each cell indicates the amount of time spent in that period on each type of task
Widget provides graphical view
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Pedagogy profile
Cloud in cloudworks◦ http://cloudworks.ac.uk/index.php/cloud/view/2682.html
Resources◦ Presentation, ◦ Link to pedagogy profile◦ Link to REAP site
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