1. A curriculum design tool to align assessment with technology
Introduction
A curriculum design tool to align assessment with technology
Stuart Redhead - University of Exeter

2. The Collaborate Project
"Bringing together staff, students and employers to create employability focused assessments enhanced by technology“
Engage with a wide range of stakeholders to explore current practice in assessment, design new methods for embedding employability into the curriculum, test and develop these methods with stakeholders in multiple contexts. Embed in strategy/policy.
Brief overview of what the project set out to achieve and what it did

3. Employers
What the employers said

4. Work-Integrated Assessment
Combines concepts of authentic assessment with local research. Defined by six 'dimensions':
‘Real World’ Problem / Data
Set an overall real world problem, supported by real world data
Collaborative Working
Create teams of students from the outset, encourage collaboration
Varied Audiences
Aim to set explicit audiences for each assessment point
Multiple Assessment Points
Move to a more distributed pattern of assessment; consider introducing ‘surprise’ points
Light Structure
Lightly structure the overall assessment; reward student
approaches
Peer / Self Review
Include peer and/or self review explicitly in the assessment process
The 6 dimensions as a part of the thinking tool

5. 1 2 3 Analyse Design Evaluate
Overview of the model and it's 3 stages - thinking tool 3
Evaluate

6. Professional & Academic Skills
evaluations is from students and their perceptions of the skills they've developed

7. Technology "Top Trumps"
60+ "off the shelf" technologies, aligned with the dimensions model.
The TTs support the dimensions and will be filtered when digitised

8. An early concept on what a digital version may look like

9. The iTest
A divergent ouput from the project - Helps students understand what techs are avaiable to use in academic career and help tutors understand how Dig Literate their students are

10. Commercial Spanish (MLS 3049) Final Year Module
case study - how the model worked in practice

11. Variety of Assessment:
Class Tests:
Summary of an article from the target language into English
Reading Comprehension
Summary of an article from English into the target language
Commercial correspondence
Business project (creation of fictitious company)
Dossier (individual research project of a journalistic nature)
Assessments already heaviliy aligned to the model. What techs could we introduce

12. 9 Months Earlier...
How the paper version of the model worked in practice

13. Which Looks Like...
Annotated version of Isabel's model

14. Suggested Technologies
Introduced students to a selection of technologies with the potential to support particular aspects of the module
Students were then encouraged to search for other technologies to suit their individual needs
A number students were offered the opportunity to submit their work digitally
Introducing the students to techs to help with their dossier

15. Drag & Drop Skills Evaluation
Remeber the skills list? This is the evaluation happeing on the surface tables

16. Which Looks Like...
Which looks like this. The results then filter back into the Dimensions model.