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

Sydney Masonic Centre

Tuesday September 4, 2007

Title: Worry less. Learn more

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Author: Margaret Wallace

School of Nursing, Midwifery & Indigenous Health, University of Wollongong

This presentation describes and reflects on the process working in collaboration with discipline colleagues, faculty librarians, Learning Development, learning designers from the Centre for Educational Development and Interactive Resources in designing, implementing and evaluating a range of resources, learning activities and assessment tasks which have as a key purpose the development in nursing students of the University of Wollongong a range of academic skills.

Ideally, by embedding these resources, learning activities and assessment tasks within particular components of study, students obtain discipline specific knowledge at the same time as they are demonstrating the attainment of more generic capabilities. This in turn enhances student motivation as they see the relevance of the various ´academic´ capabilities as essential to their acquisition of discipline specific knowledge.

Keywords: graduate capabilities, graduate attributes, assessment design.