1. Designing Effective Group Assessment Christine O' Leary Teaching Fellow (assessment) and CPRI Director

2. Session outline University Policy & SBS assessment principles Range of group work options Example from SBS Discussion- good practice in SBS/ issues and recommendations.

3. University Policy and SBS Assessment principles/ policy No 'flat mark' i.e. group assessment where all members get the same mark (University) Summative assessment to reflect individual student achievement (SBS assessment principle) No group assessment with a weighting of more than 20% at Level 6 except when collaborative working is a learning outcome (SBS policy)

4. Range of group work options Assessing group product: shared group mark/ average group mark/ individual mark- task allocation/ Individual mark- individual report/ Individual mark- examination/ combination of group average and individual mark. Assessing group process: students distribute pool of marks/ student allocate individual weightings/ peer evaluation. Source: Winchester-Seeto, T (2002). Assessment of Collaborative Work- Collaboration vs Assessment. Annual Universe Science Symposium, the University of Sydney (April, 2002).

5. Assessing the group process Tutor assessment Individual mark based on records/ observations Group average mark based on records/ observations Individual mark-for paper analysing process (reflective piece on the group process) Student assessment Peer evaluation based on pre-determined criteria Self-evaluation- moderated mark using pre-determined criteria. Source: Winchester-Seeto, T (2002). Assessment of Collaborative Work- Collaboration vs Assessment. Annual Universe Science Symposium, the University of Sydney (April, 2002).

6. Example (s)- Comments

7. Good practice/ issues

8. Recommendations