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Assuring graduate capabilities – creating rubrics

Assuring graduate capabilities – creating rubrics

Assuring graduate capabilities – this site explores a whole of course (degree) level approach to assuring standards of graduate capability achievement focusing on employability. There are also a heap of examples of rubrics for course learning outcomes and standards for graduate capabilities in Business and Law, Health Sciences, Science and Engineering, and Arts and Education. Jon Mueller’s Authentic Assessment Toolbox – a how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics, and standards for measuring and improving student learning. Rubistar is a free online tool for…

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Assessing digital artifacts

Assessing digital artifacts

Blended learning brings with it the opportunity to facilitate higher cognitive processes through the use of technology, allowing students to create digital objects. This requires writing new criteria and descriptors in the associate rubrics. Below are links to some exemplars. University of Wisconsin – A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, group work/cooperative learning, concept map, research process/ report, PowerPoint, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other social media projects.

Working with groups

Working with groups

Group work can be the source of considerable angst for students if they perceive they are being let down by their teammates. SPARKPLUS – SPARKPLUS is a web-based self and peer assessment kit. It enables students to confidentially rate their own and their peers’ contributions to a team task or individual submissions and improve their judgment through benchmarking exercises. The WebPA project (a peer assessment tool developed at the Centre for Engineering and Design Education at Loughborough) attempts to address this inequity by…

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Add a quiz to a video

Add a quiz to a video

Online learning often relies heavily on screencasts of powerpoint presentations and/or videos of talking heads to provide content, which can lead to a relatively passive learning environment. Spice things up by embedding some questions or an opportunity to discuss topics the video raises. You can weave questions throughout the video using Camtasia. However the quiz function does not work on YouTube or Vimeo so you’ll need to have self-hosting through your institution. TED talks are entertaining and often thought-provoking presentations by…

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