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Growing Pains. The Use of Discussion Boards for Summative Assessment: The Teenage Years
Stephanie Best
Inspiring Teaching, Enhancing Assessment and Engaging Students SALT conference 2016
Swansea University Author: Stephanie Best
Abstract
The Use of Discussion Boards for Summative Assessment: The Teenage YearsNext year Facebook will be 13 – the onset of the teenage years. In this time the use of social media has grown exponentially (wearesocial, 2016) so idea of bringing discussion boards into the assessment process is perhaps unsurp...
| Published in: | Inspiring Teaching, Enhancing Assessment and Engaging Students SALT conference 2016 |
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| Published: |
2016
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa29687 |
| Abstract: |
The Use of Discussion Boards for Summative Assessment: The Teenage YearsNext year Facebook will be 13 – the onset of the teenage years. In this time the use of social media has grown exponentially (wearesocial, 2016) so idea of bringing discussion boards into the assessment process is perhaps unsurprising? Yet it is not an established process therefore applying this approach brings with it challenges and opportunities (Moran et al 2011).This presentation will set out the background to establishing the discussion board as a summative assessment for an undergraduate programme before exploring the growing pains of developing the approach over the last few years as it moves into its ‘teenage phase’ and continues to develop. Finally the challenges and positives of employing a novel method will be shared.Participants will be encouraged to contribute their experiences and views on the process of discussion boards and blogs for summative assessment.Planned outcomes: To promote awareness of potential opportunities to try innovative summative assessment approaches to engage students and enhance assessment processesTo share practice and learning; offering practical advice to enable others to adopt this approach if appropriate for their modulesTo highlight some possible pitfalls and possible options |
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| Keywords: |
Summative assessment, innovation, discussion board |
| College: |
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |