Seeds for Solutions, How does the past inform the future? Innovation projects from 2004/05 #KATS2015

Project Title: Web Based Assessment and Support
Project Leader(s): Doug Quinney

Web Based Assessment and Support - Presentation Slides

Web Based Assessment and Support by Douglas Quinney, Keele University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Project Title: Developing Interprofessional Reusable Learning Objects
Project Leader(s): Cath Bucher

The purpose of the project will be to host a workshop for staff from a range of professional groupings in the Faculty of Health to give them experience of developing content for standalone web based reusable learning objects (RLOs). These RLOs can then be used by a variety of disciplines in their teaching with the possibility of some RLOs being generic to other disciplines outside of the Faculty of Health.

Developing Interprofessional Reusable Learning Objects by Cath Bucher, Keele University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Project Title: Formative vs Summative Assessment of Skills-based Group Projects
Project Leader(s): Anthony Curtis

The aim of this project is to evaluate and develop the assessment of an existing skills-based group project in terms of its timing and effectiveness in supporting such tasks, and to produce a model that can be applied throughout science and healthcare education.

The objectives of this project are:

• Evaluate the skills-based group task within the context of existing Keele degree programmes with a view to applying it in more flexible, creative learning environments
• Identify areas for improvement in relation to feedback, particularly the balance and timing of formative vs. summative assessment and the use of feed-forward
• Assess the impact of expansion of the project to include different cohorts of students from various discipline backgrounds with respect to the type, appropriateness and level of feedback given
• Disseminate the results of the project to the Keele academic community via the Keele Learning & Teaching Committee and active engagement with the Higher Education Academy and the FDTL4 FAST (Formative Assessment in Science Teaching) network

The proposal will further the University’s Learning & Teaching Strategy primarily, though not exclusively, through the development of student engagement with the principle aspects contained within the Employability Skills guidelines. It will also encourage the development of key, transferable skills, the implementation of basic inter-professional/inter-disciplinary learning, and develop a methodology that will encourage innovative, multidisciplinary teaching. Students will clearly benefit from this project, as is reflected in their engagement with other group-based work and the increased interest in industrial placements within the current Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry cohorts.

One key aspect of the proposed work is that it will provide valuable, innovative course materials and a model that will be deployed in the proposed Pharmacy programme.

Formative vs Summative Assessment of Skills-based Group Projects by Anthony Curtis, Keele University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.