School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Assessing and Evaluating Learning
  • Unit Code

    EDU3265
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    6
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Tracy Ann TAYLOR

Description

This unit focuses on applying understanding of assessment and evaluation processes to the teaching and learning cycle. The unit will examine theory, contemporary practice and the impact of beliefs in relation to assessment and evaluation in the primary years. In this unit, pre-service teachers will be introduced to skills in collecting, critically analysing and responding to assessment data/information, and the implications for teaching and learning.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from PPA2360, IPP2260, WPL2110

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ECS3260, EDL3300

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate understanding of assessment strategies.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the purpose of providing timely and appropriate feedback to students.
  3. Demonstrate understanding of assessment moderation to support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning.
  4. Demonstrate the capacity to interpret student assessment data.
  5. Demonstrate understanding of a range of strategies for reporting to students and parents/carers and the purpose of keeping accurate and reliable records of student achievement.

Unit Content

  1. Assessment and evaluation as part of the teaching and learning cycle.
  2. Assessment strategies and tools.
  3. Current policy contexts of assessment and evaluation.
  4. Impact of beliefs on assessment.
  5. Interpreting assessment data including standardised instruments.
  6. Issues and dilemmas.
  7. Principles of written and oral presentations in reporting to various stakeholders.
  8. The principles of assessment.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 210 x 1 hour lecture10 x 1 hour lecture10 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 210 x 2 hour tutorial10 x 2 hour tutorial10 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures Tutorial activities and discussion Collaborative group work in workshops Professional reading Written assignment

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment50%
ExaminationExamination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment50%
ExaminationExamination50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Brady, L., & Kennedy, K. (2019). Assessment and reporting : celebrating student achievement. Melbourne, Victoria: Pearson. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ecu/detail.action?docID=5441004

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Assessing and Evaluating Learning
  • Unit Code

    EDU3265
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    6
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Tracy Ann TAYLOR

Description

This unit focuses on applying understanding of assessment and evaluation processes to the teaching and learning cycle. The unit will examine theory, contemporary practice and the impact of beliefs in relation to assessment and evaluation in the primary years. In this unit, pre-service teachers will be introduced to skills in collecting, critically analysing and responding to assessment data/information, and the implications for teaching and learning.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from PPA2360, IPP2260, WPL2110

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ECS3260, EDL3300

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate understanding of assessment strategies.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the purpose of providing timely and appropriate feedback to students.
  3. Demonstrate understanding of assessment moderation to support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning.
  4. Demonstrate the capacity to interpret student assessment data.
  5. Demonstrate understanding of a range of strategies for reporting to students and parents/carers and the purpose of keeping accurate and reliable records of student achievement.

Unit Content

  1. Assessment and evaluation as part of the teaching and learning cycle.
  2. Assessment strategies and tools.
  3. Current policy contexts of assessment and evaluation.
  4. Impact of beliefs on assessment.
  5. Interpreting assessment data including standardised instruments.
  6. Issues and dilemmas.
  7. Principles of written and oral presentations in reporting to various stakeholders.
  8. The principles of assessment.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 210 x 1 hour lecture10 x 1 hour lecture10 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 210 x 2 hour tutorial10 x 2 hour tutorial10 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures Tutorial activities and discussion Collaborative group work in workshops Professional reading Written assignment

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment50%
ExerciseAssessment 250%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment50%
ExerciseAssessment 250%

Core Reading(s)

  • Brady, L., & Kennedy, K. (2019). Assessment and reporting : celebrating student achievement. Melbourne, Victoria: Pearson. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ecu/detail.action?docID=5441004
  • Brady, L., & Kennedy, K. (2019). Assessment and reporting : celebrating student achievement. Melbourne, Victoria: Pearson. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ecu/detail.action?docID=5441004

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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