1. Innovative Assessment

2. Do our assessments:
• enhance the student learning experience?
• provide useful and timely feedback?
• help students to understand and recognise
quality?
• lead to improved performance?

3. 21st Century Student

4. What is innovative assessment?
 Literally defined, innovative assessment
could be any form of assessment which
involves the application of a new
technique or method.

5.  For us, however innovative assessment
has come to mean more than that.
 It is a term we use which encompasses a
whole range of different techniques and
methods, not all of which are new
inventions.

7. Forum
Blogs Wikis
s

8. Create
Online Screenr –
Google
Quiz screen
Docs
through recordings
Moodle

9. Podcast YouTub
iPads
s e

10. Blog Benefits
 Post class materials and class supplements.
 Integrate all types of multimedia
(webpages, audio, video, photos,
slideshows, etc.).
 Comment modes encourage interaction.
 Team blogs enable engagement.
 Create a class publication
 Student journaling & reflection

11. Blog Sites
 Blogger - http://www.blogger.com
 Edublogs - http://www.edublogs.org/
 LiveJournal - http://www.livejournal.com/

12. Create a blog in THREE Minutes!
http://blogger.com

14. First Diploma Computer
Systems Blogs
http://ryanscomputersystems.blogspot.com
http://niamhscommputersystems.blogspot.co.uk
http://linas-systemofcomputer.blogspot.co.uk

15. National Diploma Digital
Graphics Blogs
http://niamhsdigitalgraphics.blogspot.co.uk/
http://danielsdigitalgraphics.blogspot.co.uk/
http://ryan-digital-graphics.blogspot.co.uk/

16.  http://www.screenr.com/
Screenr

17. Track and organize cumulative project data in students
Maintain, update and share lesson plans over time in a to
Facilitate writing as a process by encouraging a single single
Facilitate writing as a process by Encourage collaborative
encouraging students to presentation skills by asking your
write in a document shared with students to work together on a
you. shared presentation, then
. present it to the class.
Collaborate on a document with Maintain, update and share
fellow teachers to help you lesson plans over time in a single
all track the status and success of document.
students you share.
Track and organize cumulative
project data in a single
spreadsheet, accessible to any
collaborator at any time

18. Online
tests/quiz

19. Wikis
A wiki is a website
whose users can
add, modify, or
delete its content
via a web browser
using a simplified
markup language
or a rich-text editor.

20. http://www.wikispaces.com/
http://wikispot.org/
http://wikispot.org/

21. Caster Free – for
podcasting
Dropbox - need to look at a file or send
iPads a link to someone, I just jump into the
app and grab it.
Pages for iPad: Use this nifty app to type out
all your documents and include any kind of
formatting you may need.
Sundry Notes - to is Keynote, Smart
Notebook, Word, and Skitch all rolled
into one
QuickVoice Recorder: This is the perfect recording
tool to record your classes and get feedback on
your performance;
worksheets.
easy to import all your information from your Excel
iPad, turn to Numbers. It’s easy to use, easy to access, and
Numbers for iPad: For all your spreadsheet needs on your

22. Forums
(Frances & Irene – Business Ethics)
Forums don’t happen without
effort and knowledge of best
practices.
To maximize your Forum’s
performance you will need:
• alignment to a shared vision
• commitment on multiple levels
• a strong meeting process

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Emp
Podcasts

24. Installing
software
using Ubuntu
How to get
Inside a
your business
computer
on facebook
YouTube
Ecommerce Employability
Vlookups in
Excel

25. Innovation in education does not
necessarily require high-tech and complex
solutions.
 Often innovation is about an attitude of
mind or culture. Many of the most
successful and forward-thinking projects
use existing, easily accessible, and
common technologies that are a familiar
part of learners’ everyday lives such as
social networks, games, and discussion
forums.

26. Variety is the spice of life!
Examples
 Work on live assignments with local companies
in which they immerse themselves in a
consultancy experience, producing overview
reports of real use to the companies
concerned
 eg market research for a local organisation

27.  The assessment itself may be done by
the tutor, by the students, or even by
an outsider, such as an employer.
 Innovative assessment also
encourages the assessment of
learners not just as individuals but also
as individuals working in groups, and
as groups of individuals.

28. Example: Combined Assessment exercise –
Public Services
 A 1-day live exercise which involves
› all of the teaching team
› Key stakeholders – members of the:
› Police – Tactical support group, Local Traffic Sgt
› Fire brigade
› Ambulance
› RAF

29. Assessment
 Tutors are assigned roles – assessment or
coordination
 Assessment also takes place by members
of the various services, HOS and DHOS
 Evidence provided by:
› witness statements,
› Photos
› Radio logs (messages recorded on a mobile
phone)

30. Other methods used:
 PowerPoint Presentation
 Poster presentation involving peer assessment
› Poster may be photographed (mobile phone) and
evidence uploaded
› Use alongside a forum on which students conduct
peer assessment (carefully monitored!)
 Chat room
 Web page

31. Minimise the number of
assessment tasks
 Eg HND Health and Social Care –
Enterprise Project
› all units are integrated into 14 tasks
› Begins with researching a potential
enterprise
› Ends with presenting a proposal for an
enterprise to professional representatives
 Eg2 Games Technology

32. Benefits of innovative
assessment
 By incorporating a range of different
methods innovative assessment assesses
a broader range of skills
 It is a more reliable assessment of student
learning because it is not dependent on
any one method of assessment.

33.  This process helps maintain student
motivation, enabling them to learn more
steadily and fluently.
 A range of different techniques and
methods should stimulate both staff and
student interest.

34. No mileage in this
approach, I’m afraid

37. Let’s say..........
 You have been asked to
assess this presentation!!!!
 (No grades, thank you!)
 How would you evidence your
grade?