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Catherine Owen
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24/05/2007 20:04  
We're really delighted that we have a panel session devoted to discussion of students' input to assessment design and that we have a student from Strathclyde (Katy McClosky) participating.

Do you have experience of involving students in assessment design, either as part of class or course activities or at a more strategic level as stakeholders in institutional policy? Here's the place to share your experiences and debate the merits and challenges of student engagement with assessment design.
Sue Saltmarsh
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31/05/2007 02:36  
I'm interested in hearing about others' experience in this area. In some of my recent teaching (final year undergraduates), I obtained feedback from students about mid-way through the semester, with a view to incorporating their input into revision of the assessment for the folllowing year. What surprised me was the degree to which their views were largely functionalist, with many of the students explicitly stating that they weren't interested in learning anything that wasn't going to be directly assessed. As one student put it, "We only want to study for the assessments, otherwise it's a waste of our time!" Even though the students concede that activities designed to facilitate critical thinking and skill-building are better for them in terms of learning, they were quite clear about their resistance to anything beyond an instrumentalist approach to assessment. One question this raises for me is how--from an educator's perspective--to help students not only see, but also embrace, the importance of assessment [i] [/i]for[i] [/i] learning over a purely instrumentalist assessment [i] [/i]of[i] [/i] learning!
Donna Cullen
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31/05/2007 11:01  
I wonder if anyone has experience of involving students in assessment at a more strategic level?
For example at strathclyde we are considering involving our students in scenario planning events with senior officers,where representatives from across the university and student body can get together to discuss the greater issues sorrounding future assessment policies for the institution.We hope students will feel they are making a "real" difference by being involved at a higher strategic level!
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