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Ready for the real world?. Janet Hargreaves, Susan Bond, Paul Dagg, Benji Dawson, Blake Kendrick, Carrie Mitchell University of Huddersfield. We started with a problem…. (Scan the QR code to see CIPA.). How do we assure our students are competent to practice?
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Ready for the real world? Janet Hargreaves, Susan Bond, Paul Dagg, Benji Dawson, Blake Kendrick, Carrie Mitchell University of Huddersfield
We started with a problem… (Scan the QR code to see CIPA.) How do we assure our students are competent to practice? So we developed CIPA, an online, interactiveself-assessment tool.
We realised we had another problem… (Scan the QR code to see P-PA.) …how do we assure our students are prepared for practice? So we developed P-PA, also an online, interactive self-assessment tool.
What is P-PA? • Preparation for Practice Assessment • (pron. PIPPA) • An online self assessment tool for students, tutors/mentors and qualified professionals
P-PA was a collaboration between: Students from Health and Social Care, Computing, Business; Health and Social Care academics; Health professionals and technologists.
Factors for success • Reward and recognition including payment (for the students) [Millard and Hargreaves 2012] • Not part of assessment - no pressure to compete or risk of failure [Orr 2010] • Mutual respect for skills and contribution - shared learning [after Vygotsky 1978] • Incremental development (practice research-style design) [Davies et al, 2007])
References Davies, P., Hamilton, M & James, K. (2007) Maximising the impact of practitioner research National Research and Development Centre for adult literacy and numeracy London:National Research and Development Centre for adult literacy and numeracy. Millard , L. & Hargreaves , J. (2014) ‘Creatively employing funding to support innovation’ Innovations in Education and Teaching International . DOI:10.1080/14703297.2012.760775 Orr,S. (2010)Collaborating or fighting for marks? Students’ experience of group work assessment in the creative arts. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 35(3) 301-313 Vygotsky, L.S. (1978) Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes (M Cole, V John-Steiner, S Scribner and E Souberman, eds), Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press.