**APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING**
Please find below details of the next in the series of SEEC Staff
Development Events. Attached is a booking form and a draft programme
for the day.
regards
The SEEC Office
LINKING LEARNING OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Date: Thursday January 25^th 2007, 10:00 - 4:00
Venue: Room M513, Centre for Excellence in Professional Learning from
the Workplace, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1
Speaker: Dr Jennifer Moon.
Background
Clearly expressed learning outcomes and related assessment criteria
contribute to "/clear and accurate information for students, employers
and others about the content, standards and delivery of programmes/"
(Dearing).
Descriptions of the learning outcomes that students are expected to
achieve are now almost universally required by both QAA and institutions
at programme and module level. But writing good learning outcomes, and
their associated assessment criteria, continues to be a challenge and
educationally controversial.
The Workshop
This is a practical workshop, which will focus on developing the skills
involved in writing learning outcomes and assessment criteria within an
outcomes-based model of course design.
Credit frameworks require each unit of study to be positioned at a
given level of study with defined learning outcomes. Students are then
assessed to determine whether they have achieved the learning outcomes
in order to be awarded credit. In order to do this it is necessary to
devise assessment criteria appropriate to the level of study.
How many learning outcomes should there be? How clearly defined should
learning outcomes be? How are the requirements for achieving different
grades specified? How can assessment criteria clarify what is expected
of students? Can assessment criteria create more consistent marking?
This workshop will examine these issues and will help academic staff to
write learning outcomes and assessment criteria.
The workshop will be of particular interest to any member of the
teaching staff who has a responsibility for designing, writing and
assessing modules and programmes, and for staff involved in quality
assurance processes.
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SEEC Administrator
London Metropolitan University
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London
E1 7NT
Tel: 0207 320 1105
Fax: 0207 320 3528
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