Authentic Assessment@

SwinburneProfessor Mike Keppell

Pro Vice-Chancellor Learning

Transformations

Overview• Authentic assessment• Assessment audit• Assessment student survey• Assessment presentations • Transforming learning conference • 55 Unit Learning design workshops • Graduate Certificate L & T (HE)• Mobile App - HED• Post graduate strategy (Pedagogy) • 2016 Operational Plan

Authentic Assessment

• Empowering the learner by engaging them in assessment tasks that simulate or engage the learner in real-life situations.

• “Engaging and worthy problems or questions of importance, in which students must use knowledge to fashion performances effectively and creatively” (Wiggins, 1993, p.229).

Assessment Audit(Blackboard Units)

Assessment Audit• 71 Units: FSET - 22, FHAD - 25, FBL - 24• Learning outcomes: Across the audit

the average number of outcomes in units was six, with a range of 3 – 30 learning outcomes

• The average number of assessments per unit across the audit is four.

• Formative assessment: From the information provided in the unit outlines and Blackboard sites, it appears that less than 10 percent of assessment tasks are formative in nature

Assessment Survey(Student Surveys)

Howtoimproveassessment

Improveonclarityofrequirements(transparency,consistency)

129 Bemoreclearaboutwhatistobeproduced.Someassessmentsarevagueandconstantlyleavestudentswithaquestionmarkintheirheads

Needmorepersonalisedfeedback/morefeedback/quickerfeedback

118 Ifeellikeweneedtoreceivemorefeedbackonwhatelsewecouldhavedonetohavegottenabettermark,ratherthanjustfeedbacktellinguswhatwedidwrong.

Nochanges/improvementsneeded

106

Howtoimproveassessment

Betterscheduling/scaffoldingofassessment

99 Mostcommonlyitwasrecommendedtosplitupbigassessmentintosmalleronestoallowfor‘scaffolding’ofgrades

Work-integratedorreal-worldassessments

71 Iwouldliketoseeassessments,especiallythegroupones,designedasifintheworkplace.

Issuesaroundgroupwork 63 Mostcommonly,negativeexperiencewithgroupworkasinputofindividualgroupmembersisnotmonitoredandthereforeeffortputinisnotequitable

Howtoimproveassessment

Moreoptionsforpersonalisedassessment(e.g.allowingforchoicebetweenthetypeofassessment)

55 Moreportfoliobasedassessmentusingrelatedassignmentapplyingrealworld(orclosetorealworld)examples.

Be;eralignmentofassessmentswithlecturecontent

30

Moretechnology-enabledassessment

28 Moreinteractive,differentwaysotherthanjustessays

Professional Development(Practice)

Transforming Learning Conference 2015

• http://transformconference.com• Keynote, panel sessions and

presentations focussed on authentic assessment

• 180 delegates• Sharing practice

2015 Learning Design Workshops - “Units”

• 55 Unit learning design workshops

• Learning outcomes, assessment, constructive alignment

2016 Learning Design Workshops

• Unit design (UIP identified units, large first year units, priority units, strategic Units)

• Majors/Discipline-based learning design

• Course-based Learning design

• Blended learning• Authentic learning• Authentic assessment• Personalised learning• OERs• Mobile learning

GCLT (HE)

• Compulsory Units:• Nature of Learning and

Teaching (recommended first unit) EDU60001

• Curriculum Design and Assessment EDU60003

• Elective Units (two from following): • Digital Learning Environments EDU60002• Scholarly Teaching: to explore, evaluate and

improve EDU60004• Dynamics of Diversity for Inclusive Learning and

Teaching• EDU60005• Design and Delivery for Online Learning

EDU60014

GCLT (HE)

• Course-based learning design process

• Trial eportfolio in 2nd semester

2016

• Mobile App - HED• Post graduate strategy (Pedagogy) • 2016 Operational Plan