Developing Criteria & Standards and Learning Guides UWS School of Law Retreat @ Manly 20-21 July 2009
Jan 02, 2016
Developing Criteria & Standards and Learning Guides
UWS School of Law Retreat @ Manly
20-21 July 2009
GoalsBy the end of tomorrow you will have
• Reviewed your understanding of criteria and standards
• Begun or continued to work on developing, and hopefully finalised, criteria and standards for your unit assessment tasks
• Familiarised yourself with the aims and content of Learning Guides and begun to develop your unit Learning Guide
Why are we here?
UWS Assessment Policy - Criteria and Standards-Based Assessment
• Mac Collings
In the deep end
Marking letters of adviceRead:
• Learning outcomes & instructions to students
• Problem
• Marking guide
• Mark the letters using marking guide
What did you learn about criteria & standards?
What more do you need to know?
How to write criteria & standards
• Dr Graham Hendry, UWS Teaching Development Unit
Writing Criteria & Standards: DIY
DIY: You will need
• Unit learning outcomes• Assessment task description• A sense of what you want students to do
in the assessment task (criteria)• An idea of what poor, acceptable and good
work is (standards)
You may find useful • Examples of C&S developed for similar tasks• DIY guide to writing C&S• Examples of past student work for this task,
especially good examples
What have you learned so far?
What are the issues & challenges?
Continuing to DIY
Review • Graham Hendry
Review of criteria and standards1. What is the most important
understanding you will take away from today?
Review of criteria and standards2. What is the ‘muddiest’ issue you still
need to clarify?
Learning Guides
Learning Guides: UWS Policy
Unit Outline and Learning Guides Policy• Mac Collings
What are Learning Guides? What do they look like?
• Paul Parker, UWS Student Learning Unit
‘’But it’s not really user friendly’ Student perceptions of criteria &
standards and exemplars
Learning guides should include:
• 29(d) Annotated models of student essays or reports, or marking guides, to clarify expectations about what is required for assessment activities
What helped students learn?
students’ perceptions of the quality of guidance and feedback
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The exemplars
• Examples • illustrated language & structure of task• made expectations concrete• generated self confidence students were being
successful
• Marking exercise was rated most useful for • understanding how to complete the task• assisting to distinguish poor and good quality • especially helpful for first years who ‘don’t really
have that much of a concept.’
Marking sheet / guide
• Least helpful for knowing how to do the task• ‘But it’s not really user friendly’ • ‘congested’• expectations were clear, but abstract
• Reassured students were fairly mark (‘were for teachers’)
• But ticked sheets were helpful as feedback for next time
How will you clarify expectations about what is required for assessment
activities?
DIY Learning Guides You will need to include:
• Unit information
• Assessment information• Assessment instructions• Criteria & standards• Rationale for class learning activities• Exemplars or marking guides
• Learning resource information• Reading resources• Literacy resources• Citation conventions
Should we include anything else?
Review
Review1. What is the most important
understanding you will take away from today?
What is the ‘muddiest’ issue you / we still need to clarify?