Exploring innovative assessment methods

Are you involved in education or training and want to find new and innovative ways to assess students? This free course provides information about how innovative assessment can be used to help learners achieve learning outcomes.The course explores the purpose and usefulness of a constructively aligned curriculum and a competency aligned curriculum and the benefits of both.As the course progresses, you will also explore the barriers and enablers to innovative assessment. This will include aligning assessment with the curriculum and considering how learning outcomes from a curriculum can be achieved with the use of technology. This will involve considering key elements which are often seen as tenets when designing, creating and delivering assessments in further and higher education such as reliability, consistency, validity, authenticity and ownership.In the last stages of the course you will explore how innovative assessment can be introduced into your professional practice and how you can evaluate its effectiveness.

• Week1Week 1: What is innovative assessment and why is it useful?
• Introduction
• 1 Competency versus constructive alignment-based approaches to education
• 1.1 Traditional education or constructively aligned curriculum
• 1.2 Formative and summative assessment
• 1.3 Competency-based curriculum
• 2 What skills are needed in today’s society?
• 2.1 What is taught and what skills are required?
• 3 What is innovative assessment and why is it useful?
• 3.1 Case study A: pictures and voice
• 3.2 Case study B: creating assignments
• 3.3 Case study C: digital story telling
• 4 Summary of Week 1
• References
• Acknowledgements
• Week2Week 2: Aligning innovative assessment to your own environment
• Introduction
• 1 Creative swiping
• 2 The barriers and enablers to innovative assessment
• 3 Pedagogical and technical design principles and apps
• 4 Summary of Week 2
• References
• Acknowledgements
• Week3Week 3: Creating an innovative assessment
• Introduction
• 1 Learning from the past
• 2 Storyboarding
• 3 Summary of Week 3
• References
• Acknowledgements
• Week4Week 4: Implement and evaluate your innovative assessment
• Introduction
• 1 Aligning your assessment to the curriculum
• 2 National qualification frameworks
• 3 Evaluating the idea
• 4 Summary of Week 4
• References
• Acknowledgements