Teaching and Learning Day

Teaching & Learning Day Schedule

16th September 2016

09:45 - 10:15

Welcome

10:15 – 10:45

Student Panel Discussion (issues encountered in assessment and feedback)

10:45 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Parallel Sessions: Shared experiences of assessment and feedback practices.

Parallel session 1

• Dr Yseult Freeney, DCU Business School: Inspiring students to engage creatively with the challenges of assessment.
• Lisa Donaldson, Teaching Enhancement Unit: Transforming Formative Assessment with Mobile Technologies.
• Dr Anna Logan and Dr Fiona King, School of Inclusive and Special Education: Making the sum bigger than the parts: A holistic, coherent, inclusive and developmental approach to assessment and feedback within and across specialist modules in the B Ed programme.
• Dr Tim Downing, School of Biotechnology: Using assessment as a driver for better science.
• Dr Melissa Corbally, School of Nursing and Human Sciences:
  Learning through immersion and feedback: How ward-based simulations promote competence in general nursing.

Parallel session 2

• Dr Monica Ward, School of Computing: Assessment and Feedback – how EdTech can help with formative assessments.
• Dr Paul van Kampen, School of Physical Sciences: Examples of Formative and Summative Assessment in Physics.
• Ann Marie Farrell, School of Inclusive and Special Education: Size Matters: Using Formative Assessment and Feedback to Support Teaching, Learning and Summative Assessment in the Large Class Setting.
• Anne Kirwan, School of Nursing and Human Sciences: Formative assessment and audio feedback – student engagement in learning.

12:30

Lunch

13:30 - 13:45

Short Quiz – Be in with the chance of winning a Tablet! Test your knowledge of assessment.

13:45 - 14:45

Afternoon workshop - Feedback approaches for first year
(Y1 feedback project team).

14:45

Closing Remarks