Hi Susan

Hope you are well

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Reading your post….I wonder if there is a deeper questions for the students

"scientific articles of the highest quality " seems to be a good phrase to pick on

What criteria should we use to select the best paper?

Once we establish class consensus on criteria…then lets apply them and compere the results

Then the report conversation would be about "why did you picked that paper"….…."what criteria did you use?"…."how did you apply the criteria?"

Focusing on selection criteria might give more comparability at report

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The rest looks great…you have good intentionality and students will be doing a very authentic task

jim

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Date: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:30 PM
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Subject: Integrating TBL principles into an assessment task

Hi All,

I’m currently redesigning some assessment tasks for a 2^nd year course. I’ll be using TBL in 3 sessions in the course (the students embraced it in 1^st yr) but my question is directed at how to integrate TBL into an assessment task.

The students have traditionally done a lit review of a scenario relating to horse health. Each year many have struggled with critically reviewing literature, and this year I want to scaffold them more. What I envisage is:

-          annotated bibliographies

-          individual students to annotate 3 original scientific articles relevant to an essay question (I’m thinking something like ‘What are the main risk factors for colic in horses’). They would have time to do this during tutorials. It would be worth individual marks.

-          Each TBL team will review the scientific articles from its individual members, and come up with a list of 10 (?) scientific articles of the highest quality to answer the question.

-          Each TBL team would then write a short essay (? No of words) to answer the question.

-          We’d finish up with a galley walk and each team would assess the 10 scientific articles and the short essay of the other teams and give marks.

-          Finally we’d do simultaneous reporting to decide on the best 10 articles and the best essay.

Has anybody done something similar? I know during a workshop last year in Adelaide Larry Michaelsen mentioned something similar.

Thanks,
Susan

 

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