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1. Assessing Student Learning
Alice Ghimisian

2. The Reflective Practitioner
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3. This is how we do it:
Assessment Design
• Pedagogical philosophy
• Disciplinarity
• Models of assessment
• What we know about ways
students learn
Feedback
• Practices to improve student
learning
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4. What Is Your Purpose of Assessment?
• transformation of knowledge vs. reproduction of knowledge
• grade or rank student achievement
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5. Different Perceptions…
How We See It
• Assessment as a motivator of
learning
• Assessment should be
developmental
• Feedback has a valuable role to
play
How They See It
• Never motivating (25%)
• Assessment is more about
grading
• Assessment is less about
learning
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6. QAA Purposes of Assessment
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• Pedagogy
• Measurement
• Standardization
• Certification

7. Principles of Assessment Design
• Assessment for learning
• Embedding assessment in curriculum design
• Constructive alignment
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8. Two Approaches…
• Deep approach to learning
• Surface approach to learning
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9. Conceptual-change, student-focused
or
information-transmission focused approach?
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What Are Your Usual Methods of Assessment?

10. Assessment/Feedback to Support Learning
• Facilitates the development of self-assessment (reflection) in learning
• Promotes peer assessment and tutor dialogue around learning
• Helps define good performance (goals criteria, expected standards)
• Closes the gap between current and desired performance
• Delivers high-quality information to students about their learning
• Encourages positive motivational beliefs and self-esteem
• Helps teachers shape the teaching
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11. Assessment as Marking
Six basic principles:
• Consistency
• Reliability
• Validity
• Levelness
• Transparency
• Inclusivity
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