Assessing Alignment: Constructing an Evaluation Tool
Steve Parker
Flinders University
This project is part of a larger project underway at Flinders University to evaluate the alignment between assessment methods and topic aims and objectives. Before conducting the actual evaluation, it is necessary to define alignment. What does it mean to say that alignment is present or absent? How would we recognise (mis)alignment? The essential outcome of this preparatory project was to identify a set of characteristics that are present when alignment between assessment and aims/objectives occurs. These characteristics will become the basis of a tool that could be used by multiple analysts in assessing alignment across a large number of topics.
