Gathering online representations of practice about assessment for use as a professional development tool : a case in progress

Gail Wilson; Rosemary Thomson; Janne Malfroy; Lina Markauskaite; Peter Goodyear; Peter Reimann

Gathering online representations of practice about assessment for use as a professional development tool : a case in progress

Gail Wilson, Rosemary Thomson, Janne Malfroy, Lina Markauskaite, Peter Goodyear, Peter Reimann

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Abstract

The Assessment Snapshots digital resource at the University of Western Sydney is a current project to produce locally contextualised resources about effective assessment practice. Assessment case studies showcased through the project offer insights into how individual teachers in the disciplines design assessment strategies which respond to the challenges of teaching and learning in the tertiary sector in the 21st century. Resources produced are designed as online professional development tools for self-access by teachers and for use in assessment workshops and curriculum renewal projects. The paper explores the rationale for using case studies as a form of representation of practice, and describes the processes taken by a team of academic developers to gather cases from individual academics, provides initial reflections on those processes, and proposes plans for using the resource and evaluating its effectiveness as a trigger for improvement in assessment practice.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Who's learning? Whose technology? : the 23rd Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 3-6 December 2006, the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia : Proceedings
Publisher	Sydney University Press
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9781920898489
Publication status	Published - 2006
Event	Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Conference - Duration: 1 Jan 2008 → …

Conference

Conference	Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Conference
Period	1/01/08 → …

Keywords

education, higher
Assessment Snapshots
academic staff
education
in-service training
New South Wales
Australia
Western Sydney (N.S.W.)
educational technology
Centre for Western Sydney

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Wilson, G., Thomson, R., Malfroy, J., Markauskaite, L., Goodyear, P., & Reimann, P. (2006). Gathering online representations of practice about assessment for use as a professional development tool : a case in progress. In Who's learning? Whose technology? : the 23rd Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 3-6 December 2006, the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia : Proceedings Sydney University Press.

Wilson, Gail ; Thomson, Rosemary ; Malfroy, Janne et al. / Gathering online representations of practice about assessment for use as a professional development tool : a case in progress. Who's learning? Whose technology? : the 23rd Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 3-6 December 2006, the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia : Proceedings. Sydney University Press, 2006.

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Gathering online representations of practice about assessment for use as a professional development tool : a case in progress. / Wilson, Gail; Thomson, Rosemary; Malfroy, Janne et al.
Who's learning? Whose technology? : the 23rd Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 3-6 December 2006, the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia : Proceedings. Sydney University Press, 2006.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper

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