Blending Process with Product: Using Assessment to Drive

Learning Through the Creation of an Online Journal

In September 2003, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) endorsed a new assessment policy to introduce criterion referenced assessment (CRA) into undergraduate and postgraduate courses (Queensland University of Technology, 2003). 2004 was seen as a year of consciousness-raising, with CRA to be implemented in key strategic first year undergraduate units, while the goal for 2005 is to have CRA extended to all first-year units. In the period 2005-2007, as other units fall due for review, they would be progressively modified to incorporate CRA. One of the strategies introduced by the university to foster understanding of and support for the policy was to introduce a special scheme within the QUT Teaching Fellowship program, with participants from different faculties working together to establish a community of practice as a forum for discussion and shared understanding of the concepts of criterion referenced assessment.

One of the authors, Gillian Hallam, from the Faculty of Information Technology, was appointed QUT Teaching Fellow with a specific project to consider the introduction of CRA as a whole-of-course approach to learning and teaching. As Faculty staff were involved in the design and development of the curriculum for a new Master of Information Management, the new course offered a fertile context for the CRA project. The development of the new study program required a complete review of all units in the existing library and information studies course, the Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Studies (GDLIS). As part of the consciousness-raising process and to facilitate staff and student understanding of CRA approaches, an existing unit, ITN338 Information Resource Provision, was considered to have value as a pilot project to run in semester 2, 2004 to test and evaluate CRA as a key part of the curriculum development process.

We present a discussion on assessment designed as an integrated set of assignments for the unit ITN338, with all learning activities feeding into the development of an online journal. A brief overview of the overall learning context for the study program is provided, leading into a discussion on the development of criterion referenced assessment. Details are presented about the integration of assessment into the approaches to teaching and learning in ITN338. The rationale for assessment is considered within the context of organizational assessment policy, principles of assessment and personal teaching and learning philosophies. The project itself presented an opportunity for staff and students to critically review the new assessment strategies within a framework of individual and collaborative learning activities. The integrated assessment tasks provided both the intellectual focus and the structure of the unit, effectively blending process with product.

اخر الاخبار

اخبار العتبة العباسية المقدسة

ملتقى الكوثر الثالث يشهد عرض مشهد حواري بعنوان شريك العمر أم شريك الفكر؟

إقامة مسابقة (مرفأ النور) العلمية للمشاركات في فعاليات ملتقى الكوثر بنسخته الثالثة

ضمن ملتقى الكوثر الثالث.. ورشة تسلط الضوء على بناء الوعي القرآني لدى النساء

شعبة فاطمة بنت أسد (عليها السلام): ملتقى الكوثر منصةً لتحقيق وعي أسري مستند للقرآن الكريم

المزيد

الآخبار الصحية

نظام غذائي شائع قد يؤدي إلى ارتفاع الكوليسترول الضار

تحذيرات هامة من عواقب تناول "أيبوبروفين" مع أدوية شائعة

علامات مبكرة للإيبولا يمكن الخلط بينها وبين الإنفلونزا

خبراء: الفيروسات مثل هانتا وإيبولا أصبحت أكثر شيوعا وفتكاً

المزيد

الآخبار التكنلوجية

الليلة.. هلال القمر يلتقي كوكبي الزهرة والمشتري

إيلون ماسك يخسر دعواه القضائية أمام أوبن إيه.آي

مهمة فضائية "أوروبية صينية" لكشف أسرار الرياح الشمسية

انتهاء رحلة "السفينة الموبوءة".. وهذا مصير من بقي على متنها

المزيد

مواضيع ذات صلة

Parents with Learning Disabilities CONCLUSION

PROVISION OF SUPPORT

CARING FOR CHILDREN

EUGENICS AND ETHICAL ISSUES

PARENTING

DISCRIMINATION AND DIVERSITY

THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Parents with Learning Disabilities

Legislation and Learning Disabilities CONCLUSION

LEGAL SAFEGUARDS

MENTAL CAPACITY ACT 2005

THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998