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  • Assessment for and of Learning

    meAnything to ask, do not hesitate to contact me by email viivi.virtanen@aalto.fi  phone +358 50 505 9565.  

    THE THEMES AND THE CONTACT SESSIONS  2019 SPRING

    Developing assessment practices at own major, programme, etc.  (54 hrs= 2 credits).This is based on the plan you did during the autumn part of the course ( 3 credits). This part includes three steps:

    1) Option A) Implementation (your own plan or part of it in practice), or Option B)  Make a new programme-level plan for developing Assessment in the Programme.

    2) Then, reflection with peer group and teachers/Viivi. During March-April, a face-to-face session of 2-3 hours.

    3) Finally, sharing with academic community. (E.g. by participating in 23.5.2019 Learning@Aalto) 

    Read first the course description HERE.

    Then start the course by writing a plan, in which you tell 1) when you will implement and what, 2) when you would like to have the face-to-face session; and 3) a suggestion about how you would like to share the experiences of peer/self/other assessment. Submit the short plan into MyCourses, dead line 31.1. 2019. 

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    ALL THE ACTIVITIES IN THIS COURSE WILL BE IN THE BLOCK 2019 SPRING

    THE THEMES AND THE CONTACT SESSIONS  2018 Autumn

    1. Monday 22.10.2018 Self-Assessment, Y346, Otakaari 1 
    2. Monday 19.11. 2018 Peer Assessment, U262 KPMG, Otakaari 1 
    3. Monday 10.12.2018 Programme-level Assessment, Y346, Otakaari 

    During the contact sessions, we will learn and discuss about the topics of assessment, especially self-assessment and peer assessment to reach a shared understanding of the topics and to achieve a deeper scholarship in designing assessment for and of learning (to get more information see Contact Sessions).

    Individually, everyone will read some papers concerning the topic  before each contact session (see Materials).

    There is one main assignment to be done during the course: Assessment rubrics for (own) course. That cen be done In pairs, in teams, or individually, If that is not a meaningful task, please, feel free to do something else. It must be aligned with the intended learning outcomes, and time, but there are no other restrictions... I suggest to focus on: How to implement self-assessment, or peer-assessment into learning activities? Show your input by compiling, e.g., Blogs, Rubrics, Video, Performance in Learning Challenge etc. (see Tasks to do in this course).  

    The estimated workload for each of the above mentioned aspect is 1 credit, 27 h.

    INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES & CONTENT

    After the course you will be able

    • to identify the resources of assessment practices in supporting learning process,
    • to analyse and compare various assessment and feedback methods in related to validity and reliability, 
    • to implement self- or peer-assessment in own teaching,
    • to evaluate the assessment and feedback practices in a programme or major and to participate in developing the practices 

     Content

    • Concepts of assessment, purposes of assessment
    • Designing assessment methods to support student learning
    • Self-assessment and peer-assessment
    • Reliability and validity
    • Program-level assessment

    TEACHER IN CHARGE

    Viivi Virtanen, viivi.virtanen@aalto.fi, phone +358 50 505 9565, twitter VirtanenH
    see my research TUHAT

         

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