Activities, assignments and assessment/In-class team assessment



Sherrie Wentworth and Di Hughes' presentation for AAAOpenConf2013

Sherrie Wentworth and Di Hughes have been developing in-class team assessment in the Common First Year subject Human Biosciences (Anatony). They're building on an inquiry theme. The teams prepare two team reports through the subject, both of which are completed in a workshop. Each report is worth 13% of their final mark, and requires each team to work together during the workshops in the weeks leading up to the final workshop and then contribute their ideas to the final report. This helps to eliminate the “parceling out” of parts of the report when reports were done outside of class hours. They found that while students did very well on the team report – a question based on exactly the same material in the exam was poorly done as each team member hadn't worked on all parts of the report.