Tag: outcomes
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altPhysio | Describing a novel curriculum
I’ve spent the last 2 weeks or so trying to get my head around what a new curriculum might look like in practical terms, largely to the detriment of everything else that I’m supposed to be doing. It seems to be a harder problem than I anticipated (or maybe I’m just missing something). One of…
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Assessment in an outcomes based curriculum
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…
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Principles of good assessment
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…
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Teaching and learning workshop outcomes
Two weeks ago I attended a teaching and learning workshop on campus that was pretty interesting. I just received an email from the coordinator highlighting the following key points that were raised: For me, the main benefit of attending the workshop was finding out just how many resources are available to the students.