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Welcome to the JISC funded Project website, E-Assessment in Wales.  The aim of the Project is to explore and develop the role that e-assessment can play in enhancing the student experience of HE students in an FE college. This includes:


- An exploration of the pedagogic issues and advantages of deploying e-assessment, especially the degree to which e-assessment can support higher order learning
- An overview of what constitutes good, effective curriculum design for such assessment interventions 
- An understanding of how e-assessment can support e-portfolios (four aspects of which include e-assessment, e-storage, e-CPD and e-learning)
- An understanding of the student experience


The Project Blog is available at: http://eassessmentinwales.wordpress.com/

 

Further details of the JISC programme can be found at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_elearning_capital/el_heinfe.aspx

Further details of this Project is also available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_elearning_capital/el_heinfe/eassess_wales.aspx 

 

 

 

   

Project Outputs
From September 2008 the project has been working on an online Research Methods module, to specifically support franchise students studying

BSc Health & Social Care. Eight components have been agreed with the tutors - Research Ethics; Thinking Critically; Constructing an Argument; Report Writing; Academic English; Constructing a Literature Review; Statistics; and Advanced Citation and Referencing. More on this as work is completed...

 

Work has also begun investigating the issues of rolling out personal development profiling across a franchised course, in this case first year BSc Sports students. More on this as the work progresses during autumn 2008, although a number of resources have already been completed, including an online support module, Information & Academic Skills Resources, incorporating teaching content and self assessment.

 

Over the coming weeks we hope to be able to investigate the use of multimedia across a franchised course, by using UWIC's new streaming media server which should be online by December 2008. In the same month UWIC will also have installed the real-time conferencing tool Adobe Connect, and the Project are hopeful that they will be able to include a small pilot as part of the E-Assessment in Wales Project.

 

In September 2007 the e-Assessment in Wales Project in co-operation with Sarah Williams (UWIC's Learning Support Co-ordinator) began work on a proposed online nine week Dissertation Advice module for franchised students on three new Foundation Degrees - Textiles, Ceramics and Graphic Communication. The module would be completed mostly online, with interactive quizzes and tasks. The various components of this module can be found below.

 

Sarah Williams' presentation, given at the RSC South West conference, Innovation Through Partnership on 8th April 2008, is downloadable with more details about the module.

 

Dissertation Proposal Module, outlining the weekly syllabus

 

The 'UWIC dissertation preparation module proposal' for Barry College Foundation Degrees to be completed by the student

 

The Student Study Skills Audit | The Dissertation Proposal Template designed for Barry College

 

Week One Material for Dissertation Proposal Module - What is a Dissertation?

 

The Project has also produced a guidance document Summative Computer Assisted Assessment, to help those undertaking large-scale summative computer-based assessment

 

A progress report based on the project's first 8 months is also available.


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