scholarly journals Peer assessment in graphic design studio: Communication design students' perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-74
Author(s):  
E. F. Eshun ◽  
P. Korwu ◽  
E. Appiah
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
Education Delivery ◽  
Almost All

Large class-sizes have become a common feature in almost all higher education institutions in developing countries. Consequently, educators have to implement innovative pedagogies and assessment practices to deal with the current challenges in education delivery at that level. The purpose of this study was to examine students’ perceptions of their attitudes during peer assessment practice in graphic design studio in higher education. The study was conducted with 94 students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. The results showed that the students had a positive experience and perception of the peer assessment process. They also held positive views of the task worth of peer-assessment just like their perception of peer-assessment as an aid to learning. The results revealed that peer learning and objectivity are significantly related to task worth. The findings of this study have confirmed the advantages associated with the use of peer-assessment in higher education instead of a teacher centered approach and reaffirmed the existing unequivocal views held by similar studies.Keywords: Peer assessment; students’ perceptions; studio pedagogy; graphic design

scholarly journals Design Students Perspectives on Assessment Rubric in Studio-Based Learning

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-110
Author(s):  
Eric F. Eshun ◽  
◽  
Patrick Osei-Poku ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Design ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Assessment Criteria ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Use Of Assessment ◽  
Assessment Rubric

This study examined students’ perspectives on the use of assessment criteria and rubrics in graphic design studio at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. This assessment strategy was introduced with the desire to improve students’ participation and involvement in studiobased learning programme. At the end of the semester, a questionnaire was used to gather responses from a sample of 108 students about their opinions on the use of assessment rubric. Analyses of the data collected demonstrate that students were generally positive about the use of rubric in the peer assessment process. Descriptive statistics showed that 86% of the students agreed that assessment criteria helped them in their learning; they found the peer assessment process as a valuable learning experience and 46% contended that they needed training in the use of assessment rubric. The results further suggest 89% of the respondents agreed that the use of assessment rubric enabled them to socially interact. The conclusion drawn from the evidence is that using assessment rubric directed learning activities and can have positive implications for the learning experience in studio-based learning.

Demonstrating Positive, Learner-Centred Assessment Practice in Professional Development Programmes

2020 ◽  
pp. 880-894
Author(s):  
Patrick Baughan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Good Assessment ◽  
Seven Principles ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Distinctive Role

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the role that professional development programmes for higher education lecturers and teachers can play in promoting positive, learner-centred assessment practice. Whilst they vary in their coverage, these programmes address a broad range of teaching, learning and other pedagogical issues, and almost all include assessment and good assessment practice as a key component of their curriculum. Therefore, this chapter is used to explain and argue that professional development programmes can and should have a key and distinctive role in developing and sharing innovative assessment practice. The argument is supported by drawing on series of seven principles and ideas, as well as a single-institution case study. Points and arguments are also supported with a range of theory, literature and examples, as well as the experience of the author in working on one programme of this type.

scholarly journals Continuing Education for Health Promotion: A Case Study of Needs Assessment Practice

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott McLean ◽  
Lori S. Ebbesen ◽  
Kathryn Green ◽  
Bruce Reeder ◽  
David Butler-Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Health Promotion Program ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Adult And Continuing Education ◽  
Heart Health Program

In recent years, both practical barriers and conceptual problems have been identified concerning needs assessment work in adult and continuing education. This article provides an empirical study of needs assessment research that was conducted to support university-based continuing education programming in the field of health promotion in Saskatchewan. We describe the context of the Saskatchewan Heart Health Program (SHHP), narrate the development, findings, and outcomes of a significant needs assessment process, and identify implications of our work for other university continuing educators. Although formal needs assessment practices such as those described in this article may not always be appropriate for university continuing educators, they can be beneficial to marketing and pedagogical efforts. The SHHP needs assessment process encouraged our learners to actively and collectively reflect upon their learning priorities, increased their receptivity to our continuing education efforts, and provided us with an opportunity to role model a collaborative approach to health promotion program development.

scholarly journals MYTHS AND REALITES OF STUDENT ASSESSMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION OF ARMENIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 200-210
Author(s):  
Gohar Muradyan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Process Assessment ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
Academic Environments ◽  
Teaching Learning

Student assessment is an integral part of any teaching learning process. Assessment practices have a large number of functions to perform in the context of the teaching, learning process. This article challenges several myths about student assessment: that we know what we're grading, that we know what the results mean, that we can agree in practice on various criteria, which is possible to establish and apply unanimously. Despite these seeming difficulties, this article argues for the validity of assessments developed within particular academic environments in the higher learning institutes of Armenia. Do contemporary assessment practices perform these function: it is a critical question to be analysed. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyse the myths and realities of the assessment practice in the higher education sector.

Tiptoeing through the TULIPS: Aiming for Autonomy through Assessment in EFL Higher Education

10.47908/9/10 ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 179-207
Author(s):  
Carol Everhard
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Assessment Criteria ◽  
European Language ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Evaluation Of Learning

Involving students in the assessment process can pose a challenge both to the learners and their instructors as it goes against the grain of the testing, assessment and evaluation (TEA) processes with which they are familiar. While the European Language Portfolio (ELP) encourages reflection on what has been learnt and self-evaluation of learning progress and achievements, using criteria checklists, it stops short of awarding real grades to peers and selves. Indeed, information about peer-assessment and self-assessment of the productive skills is scant, particularly with regard to EFL higher education (HE). Such moves towards assessment bring both the instructor and the learners to unfamiliar terrain, which must be carefully engineered and negotiated, like tiptoeing through a field of tulips, which requires Trust, Understanding and Learning through, and Investment in, Peer-assessment and Self-assessment processes. In this way, learners become less reliant on others to evaluate their progress, more self-directed and, ultimately, assume a greater degree of autonomy. Evidence from the Assessment for Autonomy Research Project (AARP), involving students in peer- and self-assessment of writing and speaking skills, using pre-determined assessment criteria checklists, seems to suggest that recalibration of assessment power can help promote autonomy amongst EFL students at HE level.

scholarly journals Constructing Standards in Communities

2019 ◽  
pp. 245-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Huertas-Barros ◽  
Juliet Vine
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Assessment Literacy ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Translation Pedagogy ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

Assessment practices on translation programs provide a valuable lens through which to view current understandings about the nature of translation pedagogy. In the context of competence-based training, the last decade has seen the proliferation of assessment instruments aimed at enhancing students' learning by prioritising competence development and the translation process. Using the University of Westminster as a case study, the authors have sought to provide a clearer insight into the current understandings of translation and assessment practices on the MA Translation courses in the light of the current debates in translation pedagogy. The authors undertook a two-pronged approach by surveying not only the tutors, but also the students. This chapter will present and analyse the findings of the two surveys on assessment practices using the framework of the six tenets of good assessment practice set out by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and, in particular, assess to what extent assessment literacy has been developed.

scholarly journals Exploring Teachers Practices of Classroom Assessment in Secondary Science Classes in Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 274
Author(s):  
Md. Mehadi Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Classroom Assessment ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Secondary Science ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Science Classrooms ◽  
Secondary Science Teachers ◽  
Lesson Observation

The study investigates teachers’ classroom assessment practices of secondary schools in Bangladesh. The study is mainly quantitative with some integration of qualitative approach. Secondary science teachers and their science classrooms were main data source of the study, which were selected randomly. Data sources were secondary science teachers and their science classrooms. The study used a lesson observation protocol to understand their classroom assessment practice, and pre-lesson and post-lesson observation interview protocols as main sources of data collection. Qualitative data from interview were used to triangulate the quantitative data from observation. A total of thirty teachers (twenty male and ten female) were chosen randomly from six secondary schools in Dhaka. The study explored that teachers’ current practice of classroom assessment was to only assess students learning achievement and they followed traditional methods to assess students. The dominated assessment activity was oral questioning and very few students take part in the assessment activities by answering the questions. The classroom questions are basically focused very specific responses and encouraged rote learning; even students’ didn’t get enough time for thinking and answering the questions. Therefore the study suggests changing current practices by using different assessment strategies like self and peer assessment and focus on assessment for learning to ensure effective teaching-learning and quality education. These findings can inform the classroom teachers as well as o relevant stakeholders in making necessary changes in the present classroom assessment practices in Bangladesh.

scholarly journals Investigating How Digital Technologies Can Support a Triad-Approach for Student Assessment in Higher Education / Étude des technologies numériques comme appuis à l’évaluation tripartite des étudiants universitaires

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norm Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Assessment In Higher Education ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Pre Service Teacher ◽  
Futurs Enseignants

The purpose of this research study was to investigate if and how digital technologies could be used to support a triad-approach for student assessment in higher education. This triad-approach consisted of self-reflection, peer feedback, and instructor assessment practices in a pre-service teacher education course at a Canadian university. Through online surveys, journal postings, and post-course interviews the study participants indicated that digital technologies could be used to effectively support such a triad-approach only if students were more actively involved in the assessment process and the course instructor placed a greater emphasis on formative assessment practices. Le but de cette recherche était d’étudier dans quelle mesure les technologies numériques pouvaient être utilisées pour soutenir une approche triadique de l’évaluation des étudiants universitaires. Cette approche tripartite consistait dans l’autoréflexion, la rétroaction par les pairs et les pratiques d’évaluation de l’enseignant dans un cours de formation des futurs enseignants au sein d’une université canadienne. À l’aide de sondages en ligne, d’annonces de journaux et d’entrevues post-formation, les participants à l’étude ont indiqué que les technologies numériques pouvaient être utilisées pour soutenir efficacement une telle approche triadique, à condition que les étudiants soient impliqués plus activement dans le processus d’évaluation et que l’enseignant mette davantage l’accent sur les pratiques d’évaluation formative.

Equitable Assessment Practices

2022 ◽  
pp. 63-84
Author(s):  
Emmy J. Min
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Assessment Practice

The traditional approach to assessment is being reevaluated as a valid and effective language learning assessment tool because it often fails to account for the specific needs, contexts, and backgrounds of language learners. To make assessment processes more equitable, just, and inclusive, this chapter extends the traditional approach to assessment practice by introducing the equity-minded assessment model, which includes six principles for teachers to use as a framework for creating and evaluating assessments: validity, reliability, practicality, authenticity, washback and equity, and justice and inclusion. The author suggests that the model be used to design, administer, and reflect on the effectiveness of the assessment and as a critical reflective framework and not merely as a checklist of items. Thus, this model can serve to make assessments for learning and not just of learning, thereby making the assessment process equitable and inclusive.

scholarly journals Using self- and peer-assessment to enhance students’ future-learning in higher education.

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glyn Thomas ◽  
◽  
Dona Martin ◽  
Kathleen Pleasants ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
First Year ◽  
Group Project ◽  
Individual Contributions ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
Future Learning

In higher education settings, assessment tasks get the attention of students, but once students submit their work they typically become disengaged with the assessment process. Hence, opportunities for learning are lost as they become passive recipients of assessment outcomes. Future-learning oriented assessment engages students in the assessment process to improve both short- and long-term outcomes by requiring students to make sophisticated judgments about their own learning, and that of their peers. In this paper, we describe and critique three initiatives that experimented with future-learning oriented assessment within a faculty of education. These initiatives involved self- and peer-assessment in a mathematics education subject for first year pre-service teachers; peer assessment of individual contributions in a group project using a Wiki; and self- and peer-assessment to help students learn about leadership. Based on our experiences, we conclude with suggestions of how others might also use selfand peer-assessment to work towards better short- and long-term learning outcomes in higher education.

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