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Reshaping Assessment for Today’s Learners
Faculty of Health Sciences Semester 2, 2009
Paula Williams eLearning Consultant from ACU
About this workshop
9.00 Welcome9.05 Icebreaker: VARK, (Paula)9.45 Diversifying assessment strategies (Trevor)10.00 Types of assessment (Paula)10.15 Brainstorm 10.30 Break
About this workshop (2)
10.45 Blackboard quizzes (Trevor)11.00 Writing quiz questions (Paula)11.20 More things about quizzes (Trevor)11.40 Rubrics and BB gradebook (Trevor) 12.00 Ways to save time marking (Paula)12.20 Process of redesign (Paula)
12.30 Evaluation & Close (lunch)
VARK
• Visual• Auditory• Read/Write• Kinesthetic
We have 15 minutes to talk about VARK
Example: think of a simple learning activity
• Aim: teach your students correct activity eg could be a clinical technique/procdure
• Task: In groups, write learning outcomes and design assessment task
• Discuss: how would your assessment task suit different VARK styles?
We have 20 minutes for this activity
Diversifying Assessment Strategies• Focus on written assessment is flawed• Assessment in universities based on elite• And yet…focus on written assessment is really,
really important• Two reasons to diversify assessment:
1. More diverse assessment benefits more diverse learners2. More diverse assessment strategies makes it easier to
focus on the development of written assessment skills
We have 15 minutes to talk about diversifying assessment
Learner Benefits of Diverse Assessment
• ACU assessment policy says: “Assessment tasks … should be of different types to address students’ differing learning styles.”
• As well as addressing students’ learning style differences, diverse assessment strategies builds diverse skill development. Including the development of written skills.
Developing written – and other – assessment skills
1. We know that written skills are important and are a mark of the university-educated person
2. Marking and providing feedback on written work is very time consuming for staff
3. Written assessment may not be the only – or indeed best – way of assessing some learning objectives
Diversifying assessment (for the visually oriented)
Written Assessment
Written Assessment
Quizzes
Oral Recording
Photo Story
} Reduced marking time
} Focused marking time
Types of Assessment
• Remember VARK?• Assessment that suits:
– Visual learners?– Auditory learners?– Read/write learners?– Kinesthetic learners?
We have 15 minutes to talk about types of assessment
Types of assessment (2)
• Visual examples:– Draw a diagram or flowchart– Create a webpage– Photo story
• Auditory examples:– Make a podcast– Give a presentation
Types of Assessment (3)
• Read/write example– Definitions, Dictionaries and glossaries – Essays
• Kinesthetic example– Trial and error, hands-on activities – Displays, Dioramas, posters, task cards
Brainstorm
• In pairs, brainstorm the types of assessment you could use in your unit for 5 minutes, then swap
• Challenge: try to think of examples that are not writing-based
We have 15 minutes to talk brainstorm
Time for a break
Blackboard quizzes
• Blackboard quizzes – MCQs … and more– Calculated– Combination– Fill in the blank– Matching
Examples of quiz types
• Lets do it in Blackboard
Writing quiz questions
• In groups, write quiz questions that will assess some aspect of handwashing
• Challenge: try to create auto-marked questions that are not multiple choice
A few more things about quizzes
• Quiz scores can be weighted –they do not all have to be equal
• Quiz questions can be designated according to our marking scheme
• Short activity: are your questions: Pass, Credit, Distinction, High Distinction level?
Rubrics
Blackboard’s Gradebook
Ways to save time Marking
• Quiz• Rubrics• Peer assessment• Talking is faster than writing:
– Multimedia– Audio assessment and feedback
How to go about Redesigning your Assessment
• Allow around 1.5 days in total1. Initial idea, chat to someone about it2. Redesign (expect to take a full day)3. Consult with others to get feedback4. Revise on basis of feedback
Follow-up activities
• Paula around this afternoon and tomorrow• Website available in Sharepoint• Blog it!
Thank you
• This is the end of Reshaping assessment for today’s learners.
• Please complete an evaluation.