Roundtable: Assessing student learning: Using interdisciplinary synergies to develop good teaching and assessment practice

Sydney Masonic Centre

Tuesday September 4, 2007

Title: Integrating Assessment in a Community of Practice:

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Author: Adrienne Huber

Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong Shoalhaven Campus

This project explores integration of assessment to facilitate a professional (pre-service teachers) knowledge building community of practice. Attempts have been made to reconcile the bureaucratic need for discrete subject-based assessment grades with integrated assessment while fostering an authentic professional community of practice. Through collegial participation of Education Faculty members in mentoring in the school-based and problem-based curriculum, reflection and dialogue, the purpose, practice and impact of integrating assessment will be refined to better reflect real world practices and processes of teachers in schools. Faculty participants will be mentored to apply what they have learned in their own teaching areas and encouraged to mentor others.

Keywords: communities of practice, integrated assessment, mentoring, knowledge building community.