EDF2064 · Assessing teaching and learning

Overview

This unit is designed to develop and enhance your teaching practice. With its focus on assessment to support effective learner centered teaching, the unit begins by demonstrating effective approaches to assessment and ends with opportunities to enact approaches to assessment that impact student learning and or effective teaching. Central to this unit, is the exploration of: the various dimensions of and approaches to formal and informal assessment and how data is gathered, evaluated, moderated and deployed to support learning and; how resources can be used to support assessment approaches, communication and reporting with a focus on learners and learning. The unit models effective approaches to assessment, informed by research, and provides opportunities for learners to practice the enactment of effective assessment strategies.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. identify and critically review a range of assessment practices to determine their fit for purpose and alignment with curriculum and pedagogy
2. effectively select a range of assessment practices and reporting strategies to inform planning, support teaching and learning, evaluate progress, empower learners, provide effective feedback, benchmark and suggest ways to improve practice
3. draw on a range of resources (including effective use of ICT) to support well developed assessment practices, communicate outcomes effectively and adjust practice accordingly
4. use assessment data to inform teaching and improve learning outcomes
5. work effectively in small groups to analyse multiple sources of student data, moderate assessments, suggest ways to improve teacher practice and evaluate the impact of teaching on learning.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.