1. Annual Professional Development Conference - 2016
Wednesday 24 August
Research Skills: Models for Delivery – Standalone Assessment
Kim Tree and Janet Strain
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2. Standalone Research Skills
Research skills can be assessed on standalone basis
Can be assessed on any topic chosen by candidate
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3. Standalone Research Skills
In deciding if Research Skills is to be delivered on a standalone basis, consideration must be given to
Rationale for delivering on a standalone basis
Scheduling of Research Skills
Assessment Instrument
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4. Rationale Advantages Disadvantages
Students have had practice in researching, providing and presenting information
Preparation for project based Graded Unit
Better Graded Unit results
Additional communication/English skills
Disadvantages
Additional work for students
May not finish Research Skills unit satisfactorily before start of project based Graded Unit
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5. Standalone Research Skills – Scheduling Activity
Best Option/Worst option
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6. Assessment Instrument
Standalone Research Skills will require an assessment instrument
No CASP provided
Centres will have to write their own assessment instrument – prior verification
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7. Assessment Instrument
Activity
Your task is to draft an assessment instrument for your Centre to use for Research Skills for standalone delivery
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8. FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE
Research Skills – True or False Question Answers
Research Skills does not need to be assessed
Research Skills must be assessed on its own
Research Skills has to be taught by the same person delivering the graded units.
The assessment of Research skills can be integrated with the assessment for another suitable Unit.
Internal verification needs to be completed for Research Skills even when the assessment is integrated with that from another Unit.
FALSE
FALSE
FALSE
TRUE
TRUE
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9. FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE
Research Skills – True or False Question Answers
It is best to run Research Skills in the first semester of the first year of the HND.
A student can pass the Research Skills assessment whilst failing the Graded Unit it is assessed with.
A student must pass Research Skills to gain their HND.
Research Skills must be delivered 1.5 hours per week.
The Business Graded 2 Unit is best delivered twice per week starting in semester 2 of year 2 of the HND.
FALSE
TRUE
TRUE
FALSE
FALSE
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10. Research Skills – True or False Question Answers
When assessment for research skills is integrated, the centre doesn’t need to provide any delivery time for Research skills.
It is best to start Business Graded unit 2 several weeks before staring Research Skills.
‘Long and thin’ delivery means the hours per week for delivery are reduced, and the number of weeks for delivery is increased.
It is impossible to timetable a subject so delivery starts part way into semester 1 and finishes part way into semester 2.
FALSE
FALSE
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FALSE
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11. Research Skills– True or False Question Answers
Research Skills and Business Graded Unit 2 must be assessed by the same tutor when the two assessments are integrated.
Where two different tutors deliver Research Skills and Business graded Unit 2, it is essential they work closely together.
When an integrated assessment is used for Research Skills, the Units can be delivered by different tutors, but assessed by one tutor.
FALSE
TRUE
TRUE
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12. Any questions?
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