Tag: assessment

SAFRI 2011 (session 2) – day 4

Jun 29, 2011

in Assessment, Curriculum, Education, Research, Teaching

angoff method, assessment, clinical assessment, faimer, mini-cex, objective structured clinical exam, osce, reliability, safri, standard setting, validity

Reliability and validity Validity Important for assessment, not only for research It’s the scores that are valid and reliable, not the instrument Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of the parts e.g. when a student gets all the check marks but doesn’t perform competently overall e.g. the examiner can tick each competency being…
SAFRI 2011 (session 2) – day 3

Jun 27, 2011

in Assessment, Curriculum, Learning, Physiotherapy, Students, Teaching, Workshop

assessment, clinical learning, clinical skills, curriculum alignment, educational models, portfolios, reflection

Began today with a session on workplace-based learning, spent some time “developing a model” for learning a new skill after actually trying to learn (what was for many) a new skill…spinning a top. My group came up with the following model which, truth be told was obviously based on Kolb’s learning cycle. Reviewed educational model…
SAFRI 2011 (session 2) – day 2

Jun 27, 2011

in Assessment, Curriculum, Education, Learning, Research, Students, Teaching, Workshop

assessment, curriculum development, curriculum planning, faimer, feedback, learning, safri

“Teach” a group of colleagues about “Assessment”. Here are some notes I took in preparation for a 5 minute teaching session What is assessment? “Defines for students what is important, what counts, how they will spend their times and how they will see themselves as learners. If you want to change student learning, then change…
Strategies to improve clinical teaching: a workshop

Jun 13, 2011

in Assessment, Education, Learning, Physiotherapy, Students, Teaching, Workshop

assessment, assessment practices, clinical education, clinical educator, clinical learning, clinical reasoning, clinical supervision, clinical supervisor, learning theories, students

On Saturday I attended a workshop at Groote Schuur hospital that had the aim of providing “…clinicians with the opportunity to improve their ability to facilitate learning in clinical practice”. Objectives included improving the understanding of theories of learning, methods of enhancing learning and assessment practices and the role of assessment in learning. I was…
Workshop on Intended Learning Outcomes

Apr 6, 2011

in Assessment, Curriculum, Learning, Physiotherapy, Students, Teaching

assessment, curriculum alignment, learning, learning outcomes, level outcomes, module descriptors, SAQA, scholarship of teaching and learning, teacher, teaching

I’ve already mentioned that my institution has increased the emphasis on the scholarship of teaching and learning over the past few years, by placing it on an equal footing with research. This has forced all academics to reconsider their roles within the university, which many have resisted. Luckily (for me) I work in a department…
SAAHE – short oral presentations

Jul 23, 2010

in Conference, Education, Health, Research

assessment, Botswana, cognitive processing strategies, deeper cognitive processing, oral presentations, portfolio management, portfolios, saahe, teacher

Assessment challenges in UG medical education (GG Mokane) Medical school in Botswana is spiral, integrated, community based and problem-based, but the rest of the university is didactic Format, content, timing and feedback are important components of assessment Assessment in this course has an emphasis on 3 types of MCQ’s Matching Single best answer True/false (multiple…
A national core physiotherapy curriculum

Apr 21, 2010

in Assessment, Education, Physiotherapy

assessment, curriculum, osce, phd, physiotherapy, research, south africa, university

I had a great conversation with a colleague today, that stemmed from an ongoing discussion we’re having in our department about moving our practical assessments towards an OSCE-type format. We’ve been thinking about standardising on our assessments for a while but have never had dedicated time to work on it…not that we have any now,…
Some thoughts on assessment in the Ethics module

Apr 12, 2010

in Assessment, Ethics, Students

assessment, ethics, exams, feedback, formative, physiotherapist, summative, the Ethics module This post

This post is a result of a few short notes I made on my phone a few months ago, and then forgot about. I came across it the other day and thought I’d put it up here. The way we currently assess students has no equivalent in practice. For some of our modules (e.g. Management),…
Predictably irrational: decision-making in teaching

Feb 21, 2010

in Education, Ethics, Research, Students

assessment, cognitive domain, community of inquiry, dan ariely, drafting, emotion, irrational decisions, moral decision, predictably irrational, procrastination, social domain, social norms, teaching and learning practice, TED, writing

I’m busy reading Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions, and wanted to share some of the takeaway points that made me think about how I could change my own teaching practice. I haven’t finished the book yet, so I may update this post when I do. The premise of the…
Wiki marking rubric

Aug 3, 2009

in Education, Social media, Technology

assessment, assignment, grading, guideline, marking, rubric, wiki, wiki-based

I just finished putting together a grading rubric for a wiki-based assignment that my fourth year students did earlier this year. After I couldn’t find one that suited my needs, I developed my own and thought I’d post it here (see below without formatting) in the meantime. If you have any suggestions to improve on…
Assessment in an outcomes based curriculum

May 29, 2009

in Education, Students

alignment, assessment, Chrissie Boughey, driver, ethics, exams, healthcare, learning, outcomes, outcomes based assessment, physiotherapy, rhodes university, seminar, There, validity

I attended a seminar / short course on campus yesterday, presented by Prof. Chrissie Boughey from Rhodes University. She spoke about the role of assessment in curriculum development and the link between teaching and assessing. Here are the notes I took. Assessment is the most important factor in improving learning because we get back what…
Mozilla Open Education course: seminar 6

May 7, 2009

in Education, Open access, Technology

africa, America, assessment, control, course, educators, Garin Fons Using, mozilla, MozOpenEdCourse, notes, open, open education, pedagogy, teacher, teaching, technology, wikis

I know that this is all out of sync but the audio for sessions 4 and 5 aren’t up yet and I haven’t had a chance to go through the slideshows yet. Today’s session was about the actual practice of teaching, using “open” as a framework. Here are my notes: Session 6 – Open pedagogy…
Principles of good assessment

Oct 27, 2008

in Assessment

assessment, education, lecturer, outcomes, principles

I attended an assessment and learning workshop today and while the presentations were informative, I just wanted to highlight the principles of good assessment taken from my faculty’s assessment policy. Since I don’t have a background in education, guidelines like these are incredibly useful when creating assessments for students. For me, just knowing about these…