Continuing our series of Sally Brown's 5 big ideas to engage students in assessment - here is the second installment. If this triggers any reaction for you then please add a comment!
Sally's BIG IDEA No. 2
We need to set good patterns of behaviour early
Students rarely respond positively to exhortation or vague threats of poor marks: we need to change the assessment practices so that they make routine these behaviours very early on in a student’s HE career. Yorke (1999) encourages us to believe that the first six weeks of the first semester of the first year are crucial and that how we assess within that period can make a difference to student success or failure. Avoidance of assessment in Semester One doesn't solve the problem.
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In my experience as a First Year Undergraduate Coordinator, this also means we need to help students understand what is required (what it 'looks' like) at a tertiary level. This means demonstrating, modelling how I would go about the assessment task, or working through a trial assessment task with students in class, and most importantly, setting clear expectations for the first assessment task.
Hi Jan
Thanks for this. This rings lots of bells with learning advisers, in particular. I particularly like your point about modelling! Which Uni are you from?
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