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**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. -- =============================== SEEC Administrator London Metropolitan University Old Castle Street London E1 7NT Tel: 0207 320 1105 Fax: 0207 320 3528 Email: [log in to unmask] ===============================