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Employability and Assessment and Feedback. Alasdair Blair ablair@dmu.ac.uk
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Employability and Assessment and Feedback Alasdair Blair ablair@dmu.ac.uk Paper presented at workshop on ‘Preparing Graduates for the Changing World of Work: British Perspectives on Addressing the “Employability” Agenda in Political Science’, American Political Studies Association Teaching and Learning Conference, Washington DC, 17th-19th February, 2012
Traditional Assessment Patterns • Essays • End of year/module exams • Dissertation
Implications for learning • Surface learning • Focus on memorisation • Segmentation of learning • Driven purely by task completion
Significance for employability • Traditional emphasis on general skills • Reading • Writing • Digesting information • Implications • What job can I do? • Where is the practice of Politics? • Assessment for the real world?
Changes patterns of assessment • Presentations • Simulations • Written reports • Document analysis • Placements • Reflective journals and blogs
Bolt on or Integrated? • Assessment innovations • A sop to employability? • Downgrading of critical thinking skills? • Too many ‘easy’ assessments? • Students graduating with employability bot not graduateness?
SMART Assessment • Scaffolded • Motivating • Active • Reflective • Timely