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Philip Ramsey; Stefano Cataloni – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
Prompted by concerns over student use of ChatGPT, staff teaching leadership and teamwork on a large university course experimented with an alternative way of assessing students' learning. Past assessment practices emphasised individual reflection and quality assurance. Aiming for a more relational approach that is aligned with the course's…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Alternative Assessment, College Faculty, Verbal Tests
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Bell, Amani; Potter, Susan; Morris, Lisa-Anne; Strbac, Mirjana; Grundy, Anniek; Yawary, Mohammad Zaki – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2019
This paper describes a student-staff partnership to design learning activities and assessments for an undergraduate Film Studies course. Four students and three staff designed the new assessments and learning activities to develop students' knowledge and skills to produce a video essay. The new assessments were co-developed in semester one so that…
Descriptors: Films, Teacher Student Relationship, Curriculum Development, Video Technology
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Sapouna, Maria – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2018
The patchwork text is an assessment method whereby students produce and share short pieces of writing over the course of a module that are subsequently integrated in a final summative piece. This paper reports on the experience of using this method of assessment in a criminal justice module. The objective behind introducing this form of assessment…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Cooperative Learning
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Powell, Lynne; Robson, Fiona – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2014
This paper focuses on students as podcast providers rather than receivers and answers the question, "Are learner-generated podcasts a useful approach to assessment?" Through the use of a single institution case study, this paper presents an evaluation of 53 (taught) postgraduate business students' reflective learning assignments in which…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Graduate Students, Business Administration Education, Assignments
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McNabola, Aonghus; O'Farrell, Ciara – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2015
Research and practice is presented on the use of student assessments as part of reflective practice to evaluate teaching. Case studies are presented in the delivery of Engineering modules across a number of years at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Both student performance in continuous assessment and student feedback on assessments…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Engineering Education, Outcomes of Education, Reflective Teaching
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Parker, Jan – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2003
Describes the rewards and challenges of using the Patchwork Text to teach Greek Tragedy to Cambridge University English final-year students. The article uses close reading of the students' texts, analysis and reflection to discuss both the products and the process of Patchwork writing. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Assignments, Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking, English Literature
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McKenzie, Janet – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2003
Outlines the author's experiences of introducing the Patchwork Text in the teaching of a module about the sociology and politics of education. A clear focus in the paper is on the role of the student as an active agent and of working with Patchwork Texts as a way in which students can take ownership of their learning processes. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Assignments, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
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Illes, Katalin – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2003
Describes and evaluates the introduction of the Patchwork Text assignment in the assessment of a Masters-level course on Intercultural Management taught to students of various nationalities and linguistic/cultural backgrounds as part of a Masters-level business education program. Begins by addressing the question of whether the Patchwork Text…
Descriptors: Assignments, Business Education, Cooperative Learning, Educational Development
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Brown, Lindsay – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2003
Presents an example of a complete Patchwork Text assignment assembled by a student during the module "Perspectives on Research and Knowledge in Professional Practice." The example illustrates the Patchwork format of a sequence of writing tasks produced at intervals during the course and ending with an attempt at a retrospective synthesis. (AEF)
Descriptors: Assignments, Cooperative Learning, Course Content, Critical Thinking
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Winter, Richard – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2003
Outlines the procedures of the Patchwork Text coursework assignment format, discussed in the articles of this special issue, and presents a general justification of their current educational importance. Reviews current literature on assessment processes in higher education and discusses work on the nature of "academic literacies." Compares the…
Descriptors: Assignments, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Learning, Course Content