CQUniversity Australia - Embedding the assessment of generic skills in assessment design

Embedding the assessment of generic skills in assessment design: What's so new?

Associate Professor Kim Watty (Director, Teaching and Learning Unit, University of Melbourne)

Resources

Readings:

Jackson, M., Watty, K. & Yu, L., (2006) Assessing Students Unfamiliar with Assessment Practices in Australian Universities, accessed September 2, 2008.

Abstract

Assessment is an important issue in Higher Education, not least because it is seen as a key driver of student learning. Over the past decade, increasing class sizes, greater diversity in the student cohort, increasing administrative demands on academic staff and the need to assess generic skills along with technical competence has raised interesting challenges in assessment design.

In this brief seminar we will discuss some of these issues and whether/how academics have modified or changed their assessment design in light of these challenges. This seminar will be less about listening to a presenter and more about sharing our practices around assessment design.

Before the seminar, participants may be interested in viewing the materials below, but this is not a requirement.

Date of Presentation

06 October 2008

Biographical Information

Associate Professor Kim Watty BBus (Vic), MAcc (RMIT), GradCert TT+L, PhD (RMIT)
Director, Teaching & Learning Unit.

Kim recently joined the TLU as Associate Professor and Director of the TLU in August, 2007. Prior to joining the TLU, Kim was the Director of Teaching Quality in the School of Accounting and Law at RMIT University. With a discipline background in accounting, she has a keen research interest in assessment design; quality in higher education; and an emerging interest in threshold concepts. Most recently, she completed a research project funded by the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education titled: Assessing Students Unfamiliar with Assessment Practices in Australian Universities and an AVCC funded project titled: Enhancing the Professional Standing of Postgraduate Accounting Programs in Offshore Locations.

For more information: http://tlu.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/about_us/kim.html