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Assessment options for the course next year
Session records, Week 20, 20 March 2019

Assessment options for the course next year

What we currently have in the proposal:

Two components:

  1. Participation in activities decided by the group: pass/fail
  2. Grade for course depends on independent piece of work—using self- and peer-assessment

Problem with that: no.1 doesn’t have a grade so not part of overall grade, if you fail no.1 but get a 70 on no.2 you have failed the course…. College has difficulty with this

Other proposals

Option 1: One compulsory component, one optional one (based on an existing model used by Shereen in Moray House)

  1. Group work with various activities specified, everyone gets mark of 65
  2. Students who want to do an additional piece of work can have (part of?) their grade decided on that

Option 2: Grade is based on final independent piece of work (can be marked with self- and peer-assessment) but designed in such a way that you have to have participated in the course fully to be able to do it (e.g. reflection that draws on a range of course activities)

Option 3: Two components:

  1. Participation in activities decided by the group: everyone who passes gets 65, worth 50/60% of course mark
  2. Independent piece of work of student’s choice (could be something done for component 1) graded using self- and peer-assessment, worth 40/50% of course mark

Other questions

How can we specify self- and peer-assessment? What are the parameters? Will people actually do it?

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