HED5003

Evaluating Teaching and Learning ( 6 points, SCA Band 0, 0.125 EFTSL)

Leader: Dr A Onsman

Offered:
Clayton Second semester 2005 (Day)

Synopsis: This unit, using the cycle of reflective practice, examines the scholarship that underlies current assessment and evaluation practices. Participants will reflect upon their own practices through the completion of a number of set tasks and assignments. The first part of the unit focuses on the assessment of learning and consists of examining principles, strategies and resources with the aim of improving practice. The second part focuses on teachers evaluating the efficacy of their practice. Here, participants are introduced to a variety of purposes and techniques for evaluating teaching with a specific aim of encouraging them to maintain control of the process.

Objectives: On successful completion of this unit, participants should be able to: - Explain the need for assessment tasks to align with learning outcomes design or choose assessment tasks that best allow such alignment. - Review assessment tasks for their ability to distinguish the extent of students' attainment. - Distinguish between marking procedures based on criterion matching versus ranking. - Distinguish summative (grading) from formative or feedback functions of assessment. - Use a range of information sources to gather feedback on the effectiveness of your teaching - Identify the multi-faceted variations that exist amongst students, and seek to take account of those variations.

Assessment: Assessment consists of four tasks: - an examination of the alignment of Learning Objectives to Assessment tasks of an extant unit; - an examination of three different kinds of assessment tasks in terms of discrimination; - the design of a set of marking criteria; and a reflection on the processes of student evaluation of teaching and learning. Each assessment task serves as an addition to the professional folio started in HED 5002

Contact Hours: Equivalent of 2 hrs per week (face-to-face and on-line)

Prerequisites: First degree or equivalent

Corequisites: Concurrently teaching