1 / 23

The Collaborate Project

Collaborative curriculum approaches for the design of ‘authentic’ assessments to enhance student employability. The Collaborate Project. "Bringing together staff, students and employers to create employability focused assessments enhanced by technology“

herman
Download Presentation

The Collaborate Project

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Collaborative curriculum approaches for the design of ‘authentic’ assessments to enhance student employability

  2. The Collaborate Project "Bringing together staff, students and employers to create employability focused assessments enhanced by technology“ Engage with a wide range of stakeholdersto explore current practice in assessment,design new methods for embeddingemployability into the curriculum,test and develop these methods withstakeholders in multiple contexts.Embed in strategy/policy.

  3. Curriculum Approach Curriculum Employment Employability Internship New forms of assessment Work experience module Key skills training

  4. Work-Integrated Assessment Combines concepts of authentic assessment with local research. Defined by six 'dimensions':

  5. 1 Analyse 2 Design 3 Evaluate

  6. PSY1301: Professional Issues and Development Original Assessment 75% written examination (1½ hours) 25% oral presentation (undertaken in pairs, 10 minutes each) Redesigned Assessment 40% written project: 750 word patient information leaflet in groups of up to 6 students 20% oral presentation (undertaken in groups) 40% MCQ

  7. Assessment Problem / Data: Creation of a patient information leaflet Time: Across the module, depending in part on the lectures Audience: Two externals as new audiences / markers Collaboration: Students in assigned teams of six Review: Team working for informal review Structure: Signposts to relevant guidance

  8. Technology "Top Trumps"

  9. Technology "Top Trumps"

  10. The Leaflets

  11. What did the employers think? "I have worked a lot with various mental health teams, people who have had years of experience, and I can honestly say I have never seen such wonderful leaflets as you have produced today" Stephanie Jibson Co Chair of Lived Experience Group

  12. What did the employers think?

  13. What did the students think?

  14. What did the academic think?

  15. What did the data say?

  16. What did the data say?

  17. What did the data say?

  18. What did the data say?

  19. What did the data say?

  20. Conclusions • Explicit benefits for students, academics and employers • Model needs more testing, but shows promise • Technology "top trumps" useful for filtering large number of technologies in a specific pedagogic context • Some questions remain over impact on marks and working with employers

  21. Questions? Contact: r.m.osborne@exeter.ac.uk 01392 72 4951

More Related