11th May 2012, 9:00am to 2:00pm
Learning and Teaching Forum: Assurance of Learning
Designing Standards-based Assessment to Influence Student Behaviour
The next UNSW Learning and Teaching Forum is scheduled for Friday 11 May 2012. The Forum will:
- Introduce standards-based assessment to assure student learning
- Focus on how standards-based assessment can be used to improve student learning
- Introduce how the use of standards-based assessment can inform practice in grading student performance
- Showcase some technologies and assessment strategies that can help us improve learning
What is Standards-based Assessment?
Standards-based assessment depends on a set of pre-defined statements outlining different levels or standards of achievement in a program, course, or assessment component, and normally expressed in terms of the stated assessment criteria. Standards-based assessment involves the awarding of grades to students to reflect the level of performance (or standard) that they have achieved relative to the pre-defined standards. Students’ grades, therefore, are not determined in relation to the performance of others, nor to a predetermined distribution of grades. For more information, see the Standards-Based Assessment resource in the Assessment as Learning Toolkit.
Keynote Speaker
The keynote speaker will be Professor Beverley Oliver, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning Futures), Deakin University and Australian Learning and Teaching Council National Teaching Fellow.
Through her National Teaching Fellowship (Assuring Graduate Capabilities), she is engaging curriculum leaders of undergraduate courses from any discipline to: work with their colleagues, industry partners, students and graduates to define course-wide levels of achievement in key capabilities, articulated through standards rubrics; embed the rubrics into student portfolios and course review portfolios; and share the challenges and opportunities of such approaches through scholarly publications.
Her leadership has been recognised with two ALTC Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2008 and 2010). She publishes in a range of teaching and learning areas, including assuring graduate attributes, capabilities and employability; student, graduate and employer evaluation; curriculum renewal, mapping and analytics; and ePortfolios and student ownership and use of emerging devices and Web 2.0 applications. Beverley is the Editor of the Journal of Learning and Teaching for Graduate Employability.
Agenda
- 9 – 9.30 Registration and poster viewing
- 9.30 – 9.45 Acknowledgement of Country and Welcome. Professor Stephen Marshall, Director of Learning and Teaching, UNSW
- 9.45 – 10.40 Keynote: Assuring graduate capabilities: Assessing, measuring and evidencing standards. Professor Beverley Oliver, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning Futures), Deakin University and Australian Learning and Teaching Council National Teaching Fellow.
- 10.40 – 11:10 Spotlight session: Rubrics and Assessment — the UNSW experience. Dr Tim White, Engineering; Brigette Fyfe & Christine Vella, UNSW Global; Carolyn Cousins, ASB; Professor Phil Jones, Medicine.
- 11.10 – 11.40 Morning tea and poster viewing/voting
- 11.45 – 12.30 Group session: Rubrics in your teaching
- 12.35 – 12.45 Spotlight session: Eportfolios: a program wide approach. Dr Patsie Polly & Thuan Thai, Medicine
- 12.50 – 1.15 Q and A, follow up from interactive session. Dr Adele Flood, Senior Lecturer, Learning and Teaching Unit, UNSW and Professor Beverley Oliver. Announcement of Poster Winners.
- 1.15 – 2pm Lunch
Registration
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Call for posters
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Scientia Building, Tyree Room, Kensington Campus