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Workshop In Moodle. Sarah Honeychurch Learning and Teaching Centre Sarah.Honeychurch@glasgow.ac.uk. MA Religious and Philosophical Education. Senior Honours: 11 students, Seven books, seven seminars, seven weeks,
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Workshop In Moodle Sarah Honeychurch Learning and Teaching Centre Sarah.Honeychurch@glasgow.ac.uk
MA Religious and Philosophical Education • Senior Honours: 11 students, • Seven books, seven seminars, seven weeks, • Students uploaded 400 word review to Moodle Workshop prior to the class, • F2F hourly seminar each week, • Each student completed “anonymous” peer assessment by following week, • Tutor assessed each review each week, • Each student chose five from the seven reviews to write up and submit as final assessment for tutor marking.
MA Religious and Philosophical Education • Students felt confident talking in tutorials, • Tutor knew how to pitch tutorial discussions, • Tutor could encourage quieter students to participate, • Students felt confident with understanding of marking criteria for final assessment.
Bachelor of Nursing • 52 final (3rd) year students, • 1000 word essay uploaded to Moodle Workshop for peer assessment, • Each student did one anonymous peer assessment, • Not part of final assessment.
Bachelor of Nursing: Results • Survey after course: 17 results, • 9 did not feel comfortable marking their peers, • 9 felt they had understood the assessment criteria better as a result of the exercise, • Facebookdiscussion, • However, 14 said they had been honest and objective.
Bachelor of Nursing: Recommendations • Implement earlier in degree course (1st year), • Review after return from clinical practice, • Brown, Honeychurch and Munro. “Workshop in Moodle: A Tool for Peer Critiquing.” “In Whitelock, D., Warburton, W., Wills, G., and Gilbert, L. (Eds.), CAA 2011 International Conference, University of Southampton, http://caaconference.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Brown-CAA2011.pdf
Comments • Not intuitive to set up, but easy when you know how! • Need to think about assessment criteria carefully, • Beneficial to students: understanding what is expected of them, • Beneficial to staff: knowing what the students understand.
Workshop In Moodle Sarah Honeychurch Learning and Teaching Centre Sarah.Honeychurch@glasgow.ac.uk