ALPS Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings

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ALPS - Assessment and Learning in Practice
Settings

• Use of IT for Assessment in Practice Settings
• Annual Clinicians Meeting
• Weetwood Hall Conference Centre
• 28 September 2006

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What is ALPS?

• to ensure that students graduating from courses
  in health and social care are fully equipped to
  perform confidently and competently at the start
  of their professional careers
• Partnership between five HEIs influencing 16
  professions

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How are we planning to achieve this?

• Focus on Assessment
• Develop assessment of Core Competencies that can
  be assessed inter-professionally
• Assessed in the Work Place (Practice Setting)
  during student placement.
• Focus on Communication, Teamwork and ethical
  skills.
• Use of mobile technologies to support the
  assessment process.
• Moving from simulation to workplace.

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Drivers for using IT

• Recording assessment in the work place
• Removing paper direct input in to student
  portfolio deliver to Virtual Learning
  Environments
• Immediacy of observation
• Integration with Teaching and Learning systems
  e.g. VLE
• Use of reflection within practice placements.
  (Bloggs, Wikis, MCQs etc)

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What can IT bring?

• Social Networking amongst students
• Tripartite communication Student Lecturer
  Professional Mentor
• Cohort management mail text consolidation of
  outcomes
• New Digital Content Sound Pictures Video -
  New dimension to assessment
• Integration with Teaching and Learning

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Where could IT be used?

• Formative assessment in the practice
• Recording experiences / technique

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Hopes and Challenges of IT

• Rapid change
• Devices better more inclusive devices
• Networks Broadband speed to a phone
• Input on small devices Voice
• People only want one device
• Ethics of use e.g. photos
• Culture Why is that student texting?
• Who owns content Libraries are going Digital.

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Benefits of IT

• Mobile assessment gives immediacy of capture and
  feedback
• any place any time
• Links to Learning formative assessment
• Assessment blended with Learning
• The assessment sandwich
• Everybody has a phone social networking UK has
  60M mobile phones!
• Links to teaching and clinical systems
• Enhances the availability of material for
  assessment

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ALPS Core Team

• Trish Walker Programme Manager
• Clare Smith - Learning Development Officer
• Robin Waxman Research Officer
• Gareth Frith Mobile Technologies Project
  Manager
• Andrew Smith Project Officer
• Rosemary Porter Programme Assistant
• alps_at_leeds.ac.uk
• 0113 343 6352
• www.alps-cetl.ac.uk