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Realigning Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Integrating Assessment for Learning in Challenging Times
Date and time
Location
Seminar Rooms 1 & 2
Melbourn Building CIT T12 P594 Rossa Avenue, Bishopstown IrelandDescription
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Presented By:
Dr. Zita Lysaght, School of Policy and Practice at the Institute of Education (St. Patrick's Campus), DCU
Seminar Descriptor:
This seminar will promote informed thinking about how assessment is conceived and practiced at third level with a view to greater alignment between teaching, learning and assessment. It will facilitate lecturers and academic managers to discuss and share good practice while also considering how current assessment procedures in place in their institutions might be enhanced to improve student learning, progression and success.
Assessment for learning is one of the most powerful ways of improving student learning and achievement. Formative assessment, done well, improves student self-regulation and awareness of what needs to be done to enhance their learning, is forward focused and motivational. Participants will consider how enhancing learning, teaching and assessment alignment can improve learning for different student cohorts and group sizes in times of limited resources and increasing accountability.
The workshop element of the seminar will give participants the opportunity to share and take away some practical ideas and techniques that they will be able to use in their classes.
Participants in this seminar will:
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Reflect upon the relationship between teaching, learning and assessment for learning
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Consider the challenges of effective management of assessment from an institutional, teacher/lecturer and student perspective
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Reflect on how assessment design, integration with the curriculum, marking and feedback could best be supported
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Discuss, share good practice and consider current assessment procedures and how they might be enhanced with different student cohorts/group sizes
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Have considered some practical/ impactful assessment for learning techniques that they may like to use in the future
Presenter Biography:
Dr. Zita Lysaght is a member of the School of Policy and Practice at the Institute of Education (St. Patrick's Campus), DCU; she lectures in assessment and research methodology on undergraduate, masters and doctoral programmes and coordinates the final year BEd4 and PME2 research projects. She is Director of the Assessment for Teaching and Learning (ALT) Project, a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Assessment Research and Policy in Education (CARPE) and a former Chair of Post-Graduate Studies by Research and Co-chair of the EdD programme.