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ALPS - Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings

ALPS - Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings. Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Professor Trudie Roberts Director. University of Bradford (2434) University of Huddersfield (1400) University of Leeds (3440) Leeds Metropolitan University (1033)

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ALPS - Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings

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  1. ALPS - Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Professor Trudie Roberts Director

  2. University of Bradford (2434) University of Huddersfield (1400) University of Leeds (3440) Leeds Metropolitan University (1033) York St John University (590) NHS partners - Workforce Development Confederation - Professional networks networks - Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies Partners

  3. Audiology Clinical physiology Dentistry Dietetics Diagnostic radiography Medicine Midwifery Nursing Occupational therapy Operating department practice Optometry Pharmacy Physiotherapy Podiatry Social work Speech and language therapy Professions

  4. How ALPS works Partner Site Implementation Groups (PSIGs) Bradford Huddersfield Leeds Leeds Metropolitan York St John Monitoring & Evaluation Group Core Team Dissemination & Impact Group IT Group Research Group Joint Management Group Partner Lead Group Advisory Board

  5. Mission • to ensure that students graduating from courses in health and social care are fully equipped to perform confidently and competently at the start of their professional careers

  6. Strategic Aims • to develop and improve assessment and learning in practice settings for all HSC students • to develop and promote skills of assessors in practice-based assessment • to develop the role of service-users and carers in practice assessment • to develop project management and partnership working • to research, evaluate, disseminate and change professional cultures • to respond to and influence policy changes nationally and internationally

  7. Performance assessment (real practice): Work based assessment, real patients Does Performance assessment (artificial): OSCE, skills labs, simulated patients Knows how Context based tests: assignment, oral….. Knows Factual tests: MCQ, essay type... Shows how Miller 1990 Levels of Assessment Does Professional authenticity Shows how Knows how Knows

  8. Challenges to work based assessment • Good validity but poor reliability • Limited time of assessors • Limited number of assessors • Limited opportunity for assessment • Potentially limited areas sampled

  9. Addressing the challenge • Extend excellence in assessment • Help students learn in practice within and across professions • Identify common competencies • Develop tools to assess generic skills of common competencies

  10. ALPS Vision • Common assessment tool for core competencies • Pool of cross professional trained assessors • Innovative methods of assessment that ensure students are fit to practise in the changing workplace

  11. Value of ALPS For students • More consistent and reliable assessment • Interprofessional and multiprofessional teaching • Competences for interprofessionalworking enhanced For staff • Opportunities for professional development • Enhancement of interprofessional patient focussed practice • Improved tools and training for practice based educators For service users • Empowerment of service users • Incorporation of service user perspective • Extend existing networks

  12. Research • Impact of new assessment tools • Cultural change • Innovative use of Information Technology

  13. What will we have after the first five years? • Electronic bank of valid assessment material incorporates assessment tools and criteria • Incorporates requirements of professional & regulatory bodies • Assessors utilise bank via electronic links • Pool of qualified multi-profession assessors trained • Assessors from any profession perform practice placement assessment of generic skills • Generic skills include communication, ethical issues or team working • Students carry an electronic record of formative and summative work • Electronic record available to HEI tutors & NHS educators

  14. Current Activities • Common Competency Mapping • Common Assessment Tool • Engagement of Professional and Statutory Bodies • Supporting Technologies • Research

  15. Partner contacts • Chris Dearnley c.a.dearnley1@bradford.ac.uk • Cathy Doggettc.m.doggett@hud.ac.uk • Margaret Lascelles m.a.lascelles@leeds.ac.uk • Ieuan Ellisi.ellis@leedsmet.ac.uk • Peter Gray p.gray@yorksj.ac.uk • ALPS Core Teamalps@leeds.ac.uk

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