Mark Bailye, Blackboard - Moodlemoot 2015 Presentation - Enhancing Your Assessment Practice

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Enhancing your Assessment Practice
Mark Bailye
Customer Success Manager

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Case Study

3. Year 9 – Digital Photography
Camera
Modes
and Use
Panoramic
Antique
Photoshop
Techniques
Tourism SA
Five Quality Postcards

4. Year 9 – Digital Photography
Formative Assessment Task
Antique+ =
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Sound pedagogy

6. Assessment
Purpose
☐ FOR Learning
☐ AS Learning
☐ OF Learning
(DET Victoria)
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7. Assessment FOR Learning
“is the process ... to decide 1 where the learners are in
their learning, 2 where they need to go and 3 how best
to get there”
Assessment Reform Group (UK 2002)
Strategies
☐ Strategic use of questioning
☐ Effective teacher feedback
☐ Peer feedback
☐ Student self-assessment
☐ The formative use of summative assessment
(Education Services Australia)
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8. Assessment & Feedback
Principles
☐ Clarify good performance
☐ Encourage time and effort on task
☐ Deliver high quality feedback
☐ Provide opportunities to act on feedback
☐ Give assessment choice
☐ Develop self-assessment and reflection
☐ Encourage interaction and dialogue
☐ Encourage positive motivational beliefs
☐ Inform and shape your teaching
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9. 9
Using Moodle

10. Assessment & Feedback
Assessment Grade Feedback
Assignment Yes Yes (R & MG) Yes
Database Yes Yes Yes (GB)
Dialogue No No Yes
Feedback No No Yes
Forum Yes Yes Yes (GB)
Glossary Yes Yes Yes (GB)
Lesson Yes Yes Yes (GB)
Quiz Yes Yes Yes
SCORM Yes Yes Yes (GB)
Workshop Yes Yes (R & MG) Yes

11. Moodle – Assessment & Feedback Principles
Principles Tools
Clarify good performance Rubrics, Marking Guide, Gradebook
Deliver timely high
quality feedback
Assignment (inline grading), Quiz (automated feedback),
Workshop, Lesson, Rubric, Marking Guide
Develop self-assessment
and reflection
Workshop, Gradebook, Rubric, Self Completion, Database,
Glossary, Lesson, Quiz, SCORM
Encourage interaction
and dialogue
Workshop, Group Assignment, Messages, Forum,
Database, Glossary, Dialogue
Encourage positive
motivational beliefs
Workshop, Rubrics, Forum

12. Moodle – Assessment & Feedback Principles
Principles Tools
Encourage time & effort
on task
Adaptive Release, Chat, Course Completion, Forum,
Groups, Group Select, Quiz, Announcements, Calendar
Give assessment choice Choice, Feedback, Group Select, Database
Inform and shape your
teaching
Gradebook, Feedback, Quiz, Choice
Provide opportunities to
act on feedback
Workshop, Assignment (multiple attempts), Quiz, Forum,
Lesson, Gradebook, Database, Glossary, Wiki

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In Practice

14. View in Moodle

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17. The End Result

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23. Questions
 Mark Bailye
mark.bailye@blackboard.com
 Bailye, M. (2013), Moodle in the
Classroom: An “in the trenches”
perspective. In Proceedings of the 2nd
Moodle Research Conference (MRC2013),
Retalis, S. & de Raadt, M. (Eds), 74-83
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