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Transforming The First-Year Experience Through Self And Peer Assessment, Sean Kearney
Transforming The First-Year Experience Through Self And Peer Assessment, Sean Kearney
Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice
The transition into higher education from secondary school is a challenging change for many students. This transition and the problems students face as a result, can affect their ability to succeed. Universities recognise the transition to university as a significant feature of student engagement and learning. The current article explores an already established assessment model as a tool to help acculturate first-year students to tertiary assessment practices. The author has moulded a model of self and peer assessment that has been utilised at all levels of schooling, as a specific means to help students engage, not only with content, but …
Assessing Written Communication Skills Using A Continua Model Of A Guide To Making Judgments (Gtmj), Peter R. Grainger, Michael Christie, Michael Carey
Assessing Written Communication Skills Using A Continua Model Of A Guide To Making Judgments (Gtmj), Peter R. Grainger, Michael Christie, Michael Carey
Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice
Written communication skills are one of the most assessed criteria in higher education contexts, especially in humanities disciplines, including teacher education. There is a need to research and develop an assessment grading tool (i.e. criteria sheet or rubric) that would assist students in pre-service teacher education programs to better understand and practice written communication and to assist markers when grading academic essays that include this criterion. When rubrics are used the criterion that covers the written communication skills part of the task is often too general to truly assist students to know what they must do in order to obtain …