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Learning & Assessing Through Seminars

Learning & Assessing Through Seminars. Dr. Mok, Y.F. Seminar. Assessed? Deserving Credits?. Negotiation. Before doing seminars, discuss with students elements of a successful & a poor seminar criteria for assessment (weighting, process of marking). Unsuccessful Seminars.

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Learning & Assessing Through Seminars

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  1. Learning & Assessing Through Seminars Dr. Mok, Y.F.

  2. Seminar Assessed? Deserving Credits?

  3. Negotiation Before doing seminars, discuss with students elements of a successful & a poor seminar criteria for assessment (weighting, process of marking)

  4. Unsuccessful Seminars • Inadequate preparation • Lecturing (reading out points) • Little time for discussion • Little discussion stimulation • Unable to summarize arguments • Lack clear conclusion • Weak oral / communication skills

  5. Basic Features • Group presentation. • Listening groups consider presentation & agree questions. • Questions & discussion. • Reports on seminar topics / group performance.

  6. New Initiatives Assessment through Seminars • Group skills taught & assessed • Handouts • Ask questions • Draw conclusions • Students to manage the whole session Teacher as facilitator or even ‘an expert in not knowing’ (Raab, 1997)

  7. Weighting System • Content • Oral skills • Use of audio-visual aids • Interest engendered • Effectiveness of questions • Seminar leadership • The summing up Presentation Seminar

  8. The Presenting Group • Raise issues about the topic. • Stimulate discussion with a series of prepared questions. • The presentation should not be so comprehensive  space for discussion. • Make discussion productive (passive, not assertive). • Draw threads together to sum up.

  9. Helping Presenting Group to Prepare Relate topic to perspectives Dig into higher order thinking Formulate questions for discussion Define & take up roles Integrate members’ ideas Plan seminar layout

  10. Relate Topic to Perspectives historical global Perspectives economic ethical

  11. Dig into Higher Order Thinking application evaluation Thinking analysis synthesis

  12. Formulate Questions for Discussion fact-based comparison- based Questions opinion-based case-history based

  13. Define & Take Up Roles leader interaction processor Roles manager note-taker

  14. Integrate Members’ Ideas Use concept mapping to • capture individual member’s knowledge/ideas • work for collective knowledge • achieve consensus • then, • to match to roles, process, questions …

  15. Plan Seminar Layout • Objectives • Time frame and sequence • Methods to present • Methods to stimulate / proceed discussion • Contingency plans

  16. An example of concept map gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca 30-Jul-95

  17. Team Mapping Method (1) concept map concept map concept map concept map Team to review together discuss & formulate

  18. Team Mapping Method (2) Fit in? Refine own map Part of Topic Concept Map Part of Topic Concept Map Global Concept Map Part of Topic Concept Map Part of Topic Concept Map

  19. Listening Group • Prepare for participation in the seminar • Evaluate seminar • Learn from the presentation topic • Respond to the discussion questions • Input new insights

  20. More Resources • http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/webb/GoodSeminars.htm • http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~lwarley/documents/seminarsSpring2004.pdf

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