Reflection

Bring together new ideas your have been asked to encounter within this Module and relate them to your own present position, your current perspective on, or your stance towards the choice of assessment methods in your discipline or scholarly field;
Try to come to some interim conclusion, regarding where you stand about the question of how to assess student learning within your field;
And also relate this to how you believe your departmental colleagues would most probably view the assessment issue within your department.

The goal of this Section has been to study the question of the selection, or development, of appropriate methods of student learning assessment within a discipline, and to establish some personal grounding in a student learning perspective towards assessment methods, understanding what that perspective implies or suggests a scholarly teacher would go about developing assessment methods.

• Try to capture in a paragraph or two the main issues you think arise out of trying to incorporate a student learning approach to assessment in your discipline or subject field.
• Write a brief note on what you consider the most substantial overall critique of current assessment methods used in your subject area - to locate the place where there might be a priority for change.
• Draw up an outline plan for how you might be able to go about implementing, over a defined period (eg one or two semesters), a plan for modifying assessment in a particular subject so as to bring it closer to what a student learning perspective would require, and indicate how you would evaluate the success of the plan if it were implemented.

Against what you have written in the third point above, mention what you think would be the most predictable responses to your plan by colleagues, by your Head, and by students themselves.

What suggestions do you have for anticipating and eventually meeting any objections contained in those responses?