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Activity 8: Planning an assessment strategy


Reading and Reflection: 30 mins

 

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When developing an assessment plan for a unit of work or a learning programme you may need to consider the questions set out below:

  • What is assessment?
  • Why will we assess?
  • What will we assess?
  • Who will do the assessing?
  • How will we assess? (which includes When? How often? and Where? as well as By what means?)
  • What will we do as a result of assessment?

You will recognise these questions from the various activities that provide the structure for this module. As we have discovered, these questions cannot be answered independently of one another.

In this particular module we are focusing on assessment of learning that includes the integration of ICT. Many of these assessment standards are no different to those of classes in which there is no ICT presence. These include:

  • application of a range of thinking skills to identify information needs and process information
  • ability to engage with open questions
  • co-operative group skills
  • oral presentation skills
  • writing skills
  • numeracy skills
  • ethical use of information
  • curriculum learning outcomes and assesssment standards

Other standards may be focused on specific ICT skills (although we should not emphasise these unless we are teaching about Information Technology as subjects). The most important ICT-related outcomes in ICT-integrated teaching should include:

  • how well learners identify, find, evaluate and process information from electronic sources
  • how appropriately learners use ICT applications to achieve learning outcomes (note this is not the same as pure IT skills)
  • how well learners integrate the non-ICT learning outcomes with the inobtrusive support of ICT.

 

ASSIGNMENT 3

This assignment is to be completed once you have completed Activity 5. You will benefit if you have completed all the activities in this module before attempting this assignment.

Click here to access the unit plan template

What to do:

In this assignment you will develop a full unit of work that includes the integration of ICT. The portfolio of work that you will submit for the assignment should include:

  • Unit plan outline that includes an indication of how ICT has been integrated (See the CD to access the unit plan template)
  • A complete assessment strategy for the unit as a whole. The assessment plan is Section D of the unit plan template
  • One sample of a learner's work during this unit
  • Sample completed assessment tools for the learner sample work. All assessment tools must include reference to some aspects of ICT integration.
  • A reflection, written at the end of the unit plan, of the success of the assessment strategy and what changes you will make next time.

What to submit:

Your portfolio should consist of:

  • a unit plan
  • one learner sample
  • at least three assessment tools related to this sample

When creating this portfolio ensure that images that are included are files which have a small file size. No single portfolio document should be more than 250kb in size. Compress this portfolio into a ZIP file.

Give the Zip file the name <your_student_number>-Core2B-portfolio
e.g. 205654321-Core2B-portfolio

Save your e-diary as <your_student_number>-Core2B-ediary .
e.g. 205654321-Core2B-ediary

Save your collaboration log as <your_student_number>-Core2B-collaboration .
e.g. 205654321-Core2B-collaboration

Send the zip file and the e-diary and collaboration log as attachments in e-mail to your tutor (using the subject heading "Core2B Assignment3").

 

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