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Workshop 2: Integrating curriculum design, teaching and assessment to improve learning
Friday 27 July 2007
Apologies for the delay in making the papers from the workshop available - almost as soon as I returned from Sri Lanka I went off on two weeks' leave and only returned today (20 August).
"Too often university curricula focus on delivering content rather than preparing students for uncertain futures where it is the attributes and skills developed in their studies which will be of importance to them. Students need to be able to identify their own learning needs and construct their own understanding of subjects as well as appreciating what it means to develop expertise and think like a scientist, economist, historian or whatever.
These demands mean that we need to give greater thought to the alignment between the curriculum design, learning activities our students engage in and assessment.
In this workshop we will model an approach which will require participants to read, work collaboratively, teach others and reflect on the implications for their own practice."
The timetable and task brief for the workshop can be found here: 
Curriculum workshop 2007.doc
Curriculum workshop 2007.docThe topics covered in the workshop and the associated papers are as follows (with all topics you can also try Google or other internet search engnes):
Introduction to curriculum design
- Curriculum design (University of Paisley)
- Designing courses (Standford University Center for Teaching and Learning)
Constructive alignment
- Constructive alignment - and why it is important to the learning process (Engineering Subject Centre)
- Aligning teaching for constructing learning (The Higher Education Academy)
- Using learning outcomes to design a course and assess learning (The Higher Education Academy)
Teaching for transformation
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Teaching for transformation: from learning theory to teaching strategies (Stanford University Center for Teaching and Learning)
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Teaching for transformation (Patricia Cranton)
Assessment for Learning
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Purposes and principles of assessment (Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University)
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Assessment and feedback (Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics)
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Getting more 'teaching' out of 'testing' and 'grading' (Stanford University, Center for Teaching and Learning)
Feedback
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Rethinking formative assessment in HE: a theoretical model and seven principles of good feedback practice. (David Nicol, University of Strathclyde & Debra Macfarlane-Dick, University of Glasgow) - click on link on page.
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Assessment feedback to students (University of Bath)
Evaluation of Learning
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Classroom assessment techniques. (Tom Angelo & Pat Cross)
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Classroom assessment technique examples (Tom Angelo & Pat Cross)
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Classroom assessment techniques. (Diane Enerson et al., Penn State University)
Photographs of posters from the workshop to follow!
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