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Reforming Assessment: Challenges Beyond Design
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posted on 2021-01-01, 00:00 authored by Laura Tubino Larizbeascoa, Jean-Guy Schneider, Andrew CainAndrew Cain, Dhananjay ThiruvadyDhananjay Thiruvady, Chathu RanaweeraChathu RanaweeraPromoting evidence-based assessment practices at scale across different disciplines is a challenge. Feedback, although powerful for affecting change in students, is not always adequately implemented. An assessment framework based on strong formative feedback and other evidence-based educational practices was designed to give capstone project students an authentic learning experience, and was deployed across all our Software Engineering capstone project units involving more than 700 students and app. 30 academic staff members per teaching period. The scale of our setting raised the question about consistent and faithful implementation of the framework and its guiding principles, essential for achieving the assessment framework outcomes and equitability for students. In this study, we explore the challenges of implementing assessment practice at scale and report on our findings and support strategies in order to facilitate consistent engagement of teaching staff. The findings of our study form the building blocks of a decision-making framework to guide the implementation of ongoing pedagogical innovations at scale.
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Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (2021 : 43rd : Madrid, Spain)Pagination
78 - 88Publisher
IEEELocation
Madrid, SpainPlace of publication
Piscataway, N.J.Publisher DOI
Start date
2021-05-25End date
2021-05-28ISBN-13
9781665429726Language
engPublication classification
E1 Full written paper - refereedTitle of proceedings
ICSE-SEET 2021 : Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and TrainingUsage metrics
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Formative FeedbackTeaching EvaluationFidelity of ImplementationTeam Project-based Assessment and FrameworkScience & TechnologySocial SciencesTechnologyComputer Science, Software EngineeringEducation, Scientific DisciplinesComputer ScienceEducation & Educational ResearchMEASURING FIDELITYIMPLEMENTATIONVARIABLESLANGUAGEno CORE2020