| When developing an assessment plan for a
unit of work or a learning programme you may need to consider
the questions set out below:
- What is assessment?
- Why will we assess?
- What will we assess?
- Who will do the assessing?
- How will we assess? (which includes
When? How often? and Where? as well as By what means?)
- What will we do as a result of assessment?
You will recognise these questions from
the various activities that provide the structure for this
module. As we have discovered, these questions cannot be answered
independently of one another.
In this particular module we are focusing
on assessment of learning that includes the integration of
ICT. Many of these assessment standards are no different to those
of classes in which there is no ICT presence. These include:
- application of a range of thinking skills
to identify information needs and process information
- ability to engage with open questions
- co-operative group skills
- oral presentation skills
- writing skills
- numeracy skills
- ethical use of information
- curriculum learning outcomes and assesssment
standards
Other standards may be focused on specific
ICT skills (although we should not emphasise these unless
we are teaching about Information Technology as subjects). The most important ICT-related outcomes
in ICT-integrated teaching should include:
- how well learners identify, find, evaluate
and process information from electronic sources
- how appropriately learners use ICT applications
to achieve learning outcomes (note this is not the same
as pure IT skills)
- how well learners integrate the non-ICT
learning outcomes with the inobtrusive support of ICT.
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Module Outline
