Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Abstract
It is well known that most of learning in educational institutions is assessment driven. The Department of Health & Chiropractic is faced with assessment issues different to a majority of other Departments within the university. We have taken the opportunity offered by the Leadership and assessment; Strengthening the Nexus Project to initiate a bottom-up approach to assessment across various subjects within this Department. Participatory Action Research (PAR) offers an excellent avenue for a collegial approach to this issue. The objectives of this sub-project are to: i)Increase awareness of scholarship in teaching and learning with particular reference to assessment amongst the academics of the Department; ii) Initiate and facilitate the practice of reflective assessment, and iii) Develop ‘best practice’ assessment strategies within the department of health & chiropractic. The features that are distinctive to this department are the need to facilitate learning in the psychomotor as well as cognitive domains. Assessing psychomotor skills generally requires a criterion-referenced approach. However, the Department is placed within the paradigm of a norm-referenced University system. This creates a number of challenges. These challenges and the implications of these to the teaching and learning practice within the Department will be discussed. The collegial nature of the PAR methodology will result in the creation of leaders within the Department who will spearhead the changes at the Department level that will then ideally effect changes at both the Divisional and University levels.
title = "Leading departments on the pathway to effective assessment practice - a case study of collegial approach",
abstract = "It is well known that most of learning in educational institutions is assessment driven. The Department of Health & Chiropractic is faced with assessment issues different to a majority of other Departments within the university. We have taken the opportunity offered by the Leadership and assessment; Strengthening the Nexus Project to initiate a bottom-up approach to assessment across various subjects within this Department. Participatory Action Research (PAR) offers an excellent avenue for a collegial approach to this issue. The objectives of this sub-project are to: i)Increase awareness of scholarship in teaching and learning with particular reference to assessment amongst the academics of the Department; ii) Initiate and facilitate the practice of reflective assessment, and iii) Develop ‘best practice’ assessment strategies within the department of health & chiropractic. The features that are distinctive to this department are the need to facilitate learning in the psychomotor as well as cognitive domains. Assessing psychomotor skills generally requires a criterion-referenced approach. However, the Department is placed within the paradigm of a norm-referenced University system. This creates a number of challenges. These challenges and the implications of these to the teaching and learning practice within the Department will be discussed. The collegial nature of the PAR methodology will result in the creation of leaders within the Department who will spearhead the changes at the Department level that will then ideally effect changes at both the Divisional and University levels.",
author = "Robyn Beirman and Subra Vemulpad",
year = "2007",
language = "English",
pages = "67--68",
note = "International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference ; Conference date: 02-07-2007 Through 05-07-2007",
2007. 67-68 Abstract from International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Sydney, .
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
TY - CONF
T1 - Leading departments on the pathway to effective assessment practice - a case study of collegial approach
AU - Beirman, Robyn
AU - Vemulpad, Subra
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - It is well known that most of learning in educational institutions is assessment driven. The Department of Health & Chiropractic is faced with assessment issues different to a majority of other Departments within the university. We have taken the opportunity offered by the Leadership and assessment; Strengthening the Nexus Project to initiate a bottom-up approach to assessment across various subjects within this Department. Participatory Action Research (PAR) offers an excellent avenue for a collegial approach to this issue. The objectives of this sub-project are to: i)Increase awareness of scholarship in teaching and learning with particular reference to assessment amongst the academics of the Department; ii) Initiate and facilitate the practice of reflective assessment, and iii) Develop ‘best practice’ assessment strategies within the department of health & chiropractic. The features that are distinctive to this department are the need to facilitate learning in the psychomotor as well as cognitive domains. Assessing psychomotor skills generally requires a criterion-referenced approach. However, the Department is placed within the paradigm of a norm-referenced University system. This creates a number of challenges. These challenges and the implications of these to the teaching and learning practice within the Department will be discussed. The collegial nature of the PAR methodology will result in the creation of leaders within the Department who will spearhead the changes at the Department level that will then ideally effect changes at both the Divisional and University levels.
AB - It is well known that most of learning in educational institutions is assessment driven. The Department of Health & Chiropractic is faced with assessment issues different to a majority of other Departments within the university. We have taken the opportunity offered by the Leadership and assessment; Strengthening the Nexus Project to initiate a bottom-up approach to assessment across various subjects within this Department. Participatory Action Research (PAR) offers an excellent avenue for a collegial approach to this issue. The objectives of this sub-project are to: i)Increase awareness of scholarship in teaching and learning with particular reference to assessment amongst the academics of the Department; ii) Initiate and facilitate the practice of reflective assessment, and iii) Develop ‘best practice’ assessment strategies within the department of health & chiropractic. The features that are distinctive to this department are the need to facilitate learning in the psychomotor as well as cognitive domains. Assessing psychomotor skills generally requires a criterion-referenced approach. However, the Department is placed within the paradigm of a norm-referenced University system. This creates a number of challenges. These challenges and the implications of these to the teaching and learning practice within the Department will be discussed. The collegial nature of the PAR methodology will result in the creation of leaders within the Department who will spearhead the changes at the Department level that will then ideally effect changes at both the Divisional and University levels.