Workshop 1- Changing Perceptions of Ourselves: How Graduate Academic Assistants are Altering the Learning Experience of Education Studies Students Through Assessment Literacy

Dr. Carole L Davis, Sandip K Gill and Kristína Repová
Middlesex University, School of Health and Education

Carole, along with Sandip and Kristina, facilitated a lively interactive session, with activities around the clarity of guidance and assessment criteria, the importance of the quality of feedback and peer and self-assessment. Using specific examples from the GAA’s sessions with Education Studies students,  to prompt thinking and discussion, the 50 or so participants were tasked with discussing and feeding back suggestions for how they might tackle the specific issues raised by students. These issues included self-doubt by a high achieving student and another students consistent inability to understand and respond to assessment tasks. The session also outlined some of the interesting approaches the department and GAA’s have developed that students were appreciative of, such as a book club for students to discuss readings together.

The video clip provides a snapshot of the liveliness of the session and wealth of discussion that arose.

Changing Perceptions of ourselves from mdxaltc