Experience Sharing on Outcomebased curriculum

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Experience Sharing on Outcome-based
curriculumCriterion-referenced assessment

• Conrad Tang Program Leader BSc(Hons) in Geomatics

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LSGI

• re-wrote program document in 2005 adopting the
  Outcome-based-curriculum
• 1st year of practice 2005-2006

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Experience sharing

• Dr Janet Nichol
• Dr Bruce King
• Dr Conrad Tang

• - Remote Sensing
• - Photogrammetry
• - Cadastral Survey

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Dr Janet Nichol

• Assessment mode before Sept 2005
• Pass of Continuous Assessment
• AND
• Pass of Examination

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Dr Janet Nichol

• Criterion-referenced assessment mode after Sept
  2005
• Overall performance

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A little anomaly

• A couple of students who did have very good marks
  in continuous assessment
• but
• suddenly performed badly in Examination

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Discussion in the department

• If Passing grade for both Continuous Assessment
  Exam are still needed
• At the discretion of the subject lecturer
• Need to inform students about the assessment
  scheme in term-start

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Some thoughts on Outcome Oriented assessment by

• Dr Bruce King
• LSGI

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Initial reaction

• Unknowingly have been doing it all along
• Provide students with clear instructions and
  assessment guidelines for
• Assignments
• Practical work
• Tests
• Exams

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Initial reaction

• Provide students with detailed constructive
  feedback on each of these
• Encourage understanding rather than knowing
• Reinforce linkage of my subjects with others
  students have studied
• Grade with respect to overall standards, not
  normalised distribution

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Upon reflection

• No significant change compared to how classes
  used to be assessed
• Find using grading rubrics tedious and not all
  that constructive compared to detailed written
  feedback on continuous assessment items
• Need to develop more meaningful (to me and
  students) criteria that fits with achievement
  measures (CTTDI, Blooms Taxonomy etc.)

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Some feedbacks on Outcome based curriculum

• Dr Conrad Tang
• LSGI

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Outcome based curriculum

• Purpose Make sure the students learn!
• And thus use it as an measurement of teaching
  result fair enough!
• We, learned colleagues, of course can do it
  but there is a cost.

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Outcome based curriculum

• To make sure the students learn!
• Itemize the learning goals in each lecture
• Reiterate and test them at the end of the
  lecture

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Outcome of Outcome based curriculum in my lecture

• Successful in making students knowing key points
• Cannot ensure all students could make synthesis
  and analysis

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Outcome based curriculum

• Should we assume students are willing to learn ?
• And, if they seem not interested to learn like
  it or not it becomes our fault.
• The industry / employer complains! (and thus we
  have this meeting )

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Student learning motives

• One new assessment method under the
  Criterion-referenced assessment scheme seems
  encouraging
• Interview by Professionals
• Panel members from the professional institute and
  industry

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Interview by professionals

• Adopted from http//www.german-business-etiquette.
  com/

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Thank you !
New Program New operation modes We are building
the foundation of the Geomatics program, brick by
brick ...