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

قسم الشعائر يواصل تحضيراته لتنظيم عمل المواكب الحسينية في زيارة الأربعين

قسم شؤون المعارف يناقش تحضيرات المؤتمر العلمي الأول لمركز تراث البصرة

قسم الشؤون الفكرية يقيم دورة تطويرية لملاكات هيأة المساءلة والعدالة في الأرشفة الإلكترونية

المجمع العلمي ينظم مجلس عزاء في قضاء الهندية

المزيد

الآخبار الصحية

نصائح عملية للحد من التعرق المفرط في الصيف

أطباء يحذرون: مكمل غذائي شائع قد يدمر الجهاز العصبي

تحذير طبي من تأثير جانبي "غير متوقع" لحقن التخسيس

حمامات الثلج قد تكون خطيرة وأحيانا مميتة.. ما السبب؟

المزيد

الآخبار التكنلوجية

أكبر جدارية شمسية في العالم تدخل موسوعة غينيس.. مشروع ضخم

تسارع دوران الأرض يثير القلق.. وتحذيرات من "كوارث محتملة" ؟

"سوذبيز" تطرح أكبر قطعة من المريخ على الأرض في مزاد علني

أوبن أيه آي تعتزم إطلاق متصفح إنترنت يعمل بالذكاء الاصطناعي

المزيد

مواضيع ذات صلة

Blending Process with Product: Using Assessment to Drive Learning Through the Creation of an Online Journal Conclusions

Evaluation of the pilot project

Assessment as the driver for learning in ITN338

Methodology

Criterion referenced assessment

The learning context

Innovative Assessment and Learning in a Problem Based Environment Conclusions

Assessment of Accomplishments

Enhancing Teaching

Discussion; Enhancing Learning

Instructors

Professional Behavior