Assessment of student learning
Dr P Gardner
First semester * Clayton
This subject will include competitive, descriptive and goal-based assessment; preparative, formative and summative evaluations; diagnostic techniques for assessing the quality of student learning; measurement in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains; methods for reporting assessments. The emphasis will be upon practical applications with the aim of improving the quality of assessment procedures used in the relationship of these concepts to the implementation of current assessment policies (eg grading procedures for VCE, common assessment tasks, measurement of key competencies, and identifying profiles of learning) will also be explored. Those enrolled in the subject should preferably be currently teaching; if not they should have ready access to a group of learners.
Prescribed texts
White R and Gunstone R Probing understanding Falmer, 1992