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EDMED7067 - Educational Assessment
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<p>This unit considers a range of assessment practices, their purposes, and the issues surrounding them in several educational contexts. Students will learn about formative, summative, and ongoing assessment, and concepts such as assessment of/for/as learning. Assessment validity, reliability, and accountability are examined in a range of contemporary educational assessments. Students will understand psychometric approaches to assessment, and build their data literacy. The unit explores the relationship between testing, the individual and the community, and the role of assessment in relation to social justice.</p>
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<p>This course will cover the following topics:<br>
• Understanding and critically examining assessment principles, policies, purposes and research.<br>
• Investigation of various philosophic psychological and sociological perspectives which provide frameworks for assessment;<br>
• Familiarisation with a wide variety of forms of assessment, evaluation and reporting, and their role in different educational contexts<br>
• Aligning learning, curriculum and assessment.<br>
• Building data literacy in interpreting assessment data, designing and evaluating assessment</p>
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<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
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Unit description
<p>This unit considers a range of assessment practices, their purposes, and the issues surrounding them in several educational contexts. Students will learn about formative, summative, and ongoing assessment, and concepts such as assessment of/for/as learning. Assessment validity, reliability, and accountability are examined in a range of contemporary educational assessments. Students will understand psychometric approaches to assessment, and build their data literacy. The unit explores the relationship between testing, the individual and the community, and the role of assessment in relation to social justice.</p>
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<p>This course will cover the following topics:<br> • Understanding and critically examining assessment principles, policies, purposes and research.<br> • Investigation of various philosophic psychological and sociological perspectives which provide frameworks for assessment;<br> • Familiarisation with a wide variety of forms of assessment, evaluation and reporting, and their role in different educational contexts<br> • Aligning learning, curriculum and assessment.<br> • Building data literacy in interpreting assessment data, designing and evaluating assessment</p>
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Education, Arts & Community
Discipline:
Education
Study level:
Postgraduate - Coursework
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
070303 - Education Studies
Offering:
<p><strong>Semester 2</strong><p>On-line Learning</p></p>
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
No
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/edmed7067">View unit fees</a>
Requisites
Prerequisite
None
Corequisite
None
Exclusion
None
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
<p>On successful completion of this unit, students are expected to gain the following [K]nowledge, [S]kills and [A]pplication of knowledge & skills</p>
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K1
<p>Recognise a range of strategies that can be used in educational assessment</p>
K2
<p>Distinguish the purposes of assessment</p>
K3
<p>Interrogate the relationship between assessment, the individual and society</p>
S1
<p>Interpret data critically from a range of assessments</p>
S2
<p>Identify a range of valid and reliable contemporary educational assessment practices</p>
S3
<p>Evaluate assessment reliability and validity, e.g. psychometric construct validity, transition-point predictors etc.</p>
A1
<p>Research, examine and evaluate a range of assessments</p>
A2
<p>Select and use a range of assessment tools and practices, addressing fitness for purpose.</p>
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<p>Presentation of a selected assessment tool, accompanied by a critical review</p>
<p>Presentation</p>
<p>30-40%</p>
K1, K2, S1, S2, S3, A1
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<p>An academic paper that focusses on a chosen area of educational assessment, and with reference to a specific assessment practice and using research, reviews validity, reliability, context, and how the assessment practice relates to the major issues of the course.</p>
<p>Essay</p>
<p>60-70%</p>
K1, K2, K3, S2, S3, A1, A2
Supplementary assessment available:
Yes
Supplementary assessment information:
<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Education, Arts & Community
Discipline:
Education
Study level:
Postgraduate - Coursework
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
070303 - Education Studies
Offering:
<p><strong>Semester 2</strong><p>On-line Learning</p></p>
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
No
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/edmed7067">View unit fees</a>
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