Delivering Successful Assessments

2. Delivering Successful Assessments Developing Business Practice –302LON Unit: 3Knowledgecast: 2

3. Module Learning Outcomes In this Knowledgecast, we will: • Analyse a range of learning styles and the factors that influence successful study • Evaluate current academic, self marketing and personal skills and present a plan for the development of academic skills • Use programme and module information to develop a personalised academic strategy

4. Module Overview

5. Success in Your Assessments A Simple Equation:

6. Success in Your Assessments The skills being assessed include: • Learning • Critical thinking • Numeracy • Reasoning • Writing

7. Success in Your Assessments Principles behind your assessments: • Reflects the demands and activities in today’s workplace • Uses a range of business technologies • Helps you develop and apply your skills and knowledge over the module • Helps you demonstrate your core skills

8. The 4 Assessment Steps • Interpret the question • Plan the content • Plan the structure • Plan the time

9. Step 1 – Interpret the Question • Identify and understand the key terms • Identify each part of the question An example • Discuss the usefulness of Fayol’s model of management as a framework for students to use to manage their studies

10. Step 2 – Plan the Content • Identify key concepts and theories • Identify your information sources • Check against your module content An example • Discuss the usefulness of Fayol’s model of management as a framework for students to use to manage their studies

11. Step 3 – Plan the Structure • Use your 6 Elements of an Assessment • Use a mind map to create your plan • Check how each paragraph answers the question • Check you have answered the whole question An example • Discuss the usefulness of Fayol’s model of management as a framework for students to use to manage their studies

12. 6 Elements of An Assessment

13. Step 4 – Plan the Time • Identify the actions required • Estimate your timescales for each stage of the process • Use rough drafts to beat procrastinating • Seek support as soon as you need help

14. Step 4 – Plan the Time Why Don’t All Students Succeed?

15. Referencing Your Sources Access the CULC Harvard Reference Style Guide to: • Use in-text citations consistently • Format your List of References accurately • Be ACCURATE about where each source comes from and check that other readers can locate exactly the idea, image, or numerical data you have borrowed • Be RIGOUROUS in checking that only each and every source you have cited is included in the List of References • Be CONSISTENT. Make sure you have followed the same procedure throughout your assessment

16. Referencing Your Sources Access the CULC Harvard Reference Style Guide to: • Use in-text citations consistently ACCURATE RIGOROUS CONSISTENT

17. Referencing Your Sources Access the CULC Harvard Reference Style Guide to: • Format your List of References accurately ACCURATE RIGOROUS CONSISTENT

18. Protecting Your Work by Using Turnitin COURSE NAME Student Name

19. The Value of Feedback Use the feedback you receive on assessments to: • Reflect on what you did well and your strengths • Identify what you need to improve on and how • Interrogate the outcome of any assumptions you made • Share any key learning points with your colleagues

20. What are we going to cover next? • In our next Knowledgecast, we will look at: • Analyse a range of learning styles and the factors that influence successful study • Evaluate current academic, self marketing and personal skills and present a plan for the development of academic skills • Use programme and module information to develop a personalised academic strategy

21. Knowledgecast Summary In this Knowledgecast, we have: • Analyse a range of learning styles and the factors that influence successful study • Considered how to use summative and formative feedback to develop your assessment skills • Evaluate current academic, self marketing and personal skills and present a plan for the development of academic skills • Identified 4 factors that contribute to achieving good grades in all your assessments • Use programme and module information to develop a personalised academic strategy • Reviewed the CULC policy on plagiarism and apply the 3 steps to protect your work from plagiarism

23. Seminar • Developing your Argument • Exploring Assessment Methods • Regular Assignment 1 Check-In

24. Business Focused Assessments Examples of assessment types: • Portfolio • Management Brief • Pitch • Debate • Peer Assessment • Group Presentation

25. Group Activity Assignment Case Study • What are your overall comments about each assignment? • What are the strengths of each assignment? • What are the weaknesses of each assignment? • Are they good assignments? Finally, how you would feedback your comments to each student?