Postgraduate Course: Assessment, Examinations and Standard Setting (MEED11022)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh Medical School |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course forms part of the first year of the MSc in Clinical Education and deals with assessment, feedback and associated topics for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Assessment in healthcare must be robust enough to protect patients, and reassure other stakeholders by permitting only competent candidates to progress without inadvertently holding back others who are also able. This is an enormous challenge especially when endeavouring to assess the wide range of competencies and attributes that we expect healthcare professionals to demonstrate. In addition there is a complex interplay between learning, assessment and feedback, making it difficult to predict exactly how effective assessments will be in any one context.
During this course, students will have weekly online lectures, tutorials and discussion boards to guide and support their learning. The focus is on the principles of good assessment as it relates to the range of methods used within healthcare today across the world. As the course progresses, students will increasingly be able to critique and apply the literature to issues of assessment design. |
| Course description |
During this course students will explore the following topics:
- purposes of assessment
- formative and summative assessments
- current key issues in assessment and academic feedback
- common modes, methods and processes of assessment
- reliability, validity, cost-effectiveness, educational impact, utility, and fairness - evaluating and establishing quality
- planning assessment in the clinical context
- peer and group assessment
Students will be provided with a variety of materials to read, listen to and consider, and are expected to attend the online tutorials and contribute to the discussion boards to give them opportunities to nurture, extend and challenge their own understanding through discussion with peers and tutors. Extensive formative feedback is provided to students through the tutorials and discussion boards. Feedforward on the assignments will also be provided.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2018/19, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Blocks 2-3 (Sem 1-2) |
| Course Start Date |
26/11/2018 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 8,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 8,
Online Activities 65,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 30,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
83 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Students are expected to submit a short assignment for feedback only (no marks), mid-course.
Summative written assignment - 3,000 words |
| Feedback |
Tutors give feedback to students on a weekly basis through interactive tutorials and discussion boards.
Tutors will offer feedback on the formative assignment.
Tutors will give individual detailed feedback on the summative end of course assignment. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Critically evaluate the pedagogical impact of assessment and feedback
- Critique a range of assessment formats in relation to different purposes
- Explain the key factors in establishing the quality of assessment
- Apply principles of good assessment design, including an understanding of context
- Apply principles of effective feedback to enhance formal or informal teaching
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
Online environments are used for the teaching, learning and assessment of all courses on the MSc programme. This includes the Waverley Suite, allowing interactive visual, audio, textural and graphical modes of communication, in the same synchronous or asynchronous event. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Tim Fawns
Tel: 0131 242 6536
Email: T.Fawns@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Debbie Spence
Tel: (0131 6)51 6536
Email: Debbie.Spence@ed.ac.uk |
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