eAssessment innovations in HSC

Ingrid Nix

COLMSCT CETL Teaching Fellow, HSC

Faculty briefing 24th February 2010

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Highlighting innovation in Faculty programmes:

K101 Understanding health and social care

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‘learning a way of talking about the world in numerical

terms’

‘The purpose of each quiz – to get your mind tuned in, so that you are ready to listen to the way tables & charts are talked about and the way conclusions are drawn from them.’(K101 course text, Bl1, Unit 4 Activity 3)

Developing number skills on K101

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Number skills topics

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Formative – DVD-ROM activity

link to quiz Context links to quiz

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Formative – DVD-ROM activity

Correct answer triggers feedback (audio + animations explaining the answer)

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Audio Feedback: ‘…What do the numbers on the left tell you? They go up in twenties and the red line …’

Animation enhances explanation

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Summative online Moodle Quiz

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Are students engaging?

HOW DO WE KNOW?

•Gradebook – to tell us about the student experience/ actions

•CTs decide who to make it available to:

–Students (individual view)

–Tutors (tutor group view + cohort averages)

–CTs (course wide view of TGs + cohort averages + sort functions to display information + generate reports)

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Gradebook: for studentsBenefits:

Enables students to review their use of iCMAs

e.g. Answers, marks, times, dates

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Gradebook: for tutors

After cut-off a score shows student has submitted

Lack of score shows student needs chasing for next iCMA

Average across 3 iCMAs

Compare TG average with

cohort average

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Gradebook: further information

VLE choices website (co-ordinated by Janet Macdonald)

http://learn.open.ac.uk/site/vle-choices

Teaching and facilitation > Section 3.3 Feedback on learning

•Fiona Barnes on K101 AL use (PDF)

•Ingrid Nix on CT considerations (Audio )

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Course perspective

The CT will be involved:

•At score approval stage

•At end of presentation(s)

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Course perspectiveK101 09B

- iCMA grades distributed across iCMA42

- How well each question helped sort strong students from weak

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Cohort averages viewed in Gradebook

K101 08J

K101 09B

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Cross-presentation comparisons

K101-08J scores compared with K101-09B

iCMA41 08J

09B

iCMA42 08J

09B

iCMA43 08J

09B

iCMA44 08J

09B

iCMA45 08J

09B

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Students not engaging – K101

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To find out more•Learning about eAssessment (Phil Butcher)

http://learn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?name=ICMA

•E-Assessment section of Media Development wiki

http://intranet4.open.ac.uk/wikis/MDWG-wiki/EAssessment

•VLE Choices website

http://learn.open.ac.uk/site/vle-choices

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ContactsIngrid Nix (i.nix@open.ac.uk)

Slides on Media Development Wiki/ eAssessment: http://intranet4.open.ac.uk/wikis/MDWG-wiki/EAssessment