Assessment for Indigenous Health Education: A Capability Approach

This is a symposium to present the results of a two year National Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) project examining the role of assessment in the area of Indigenous health education.

The Capability Approach to Assessment is a practical guide. It provides ideas and strategies for designing assessment tasks and underpinning curricula to build capability for future work in Indigenous Health and similar contexts in health professional students.

Target Audience: Educators and researchers involved in developing and teaching Indigenous health education within all health professional programs

Before Lunch (10am-1pm), Symposium: To present the project findings and to illustrate how to use the guide. The symposium will include: presentations from the project team; a panel discussion with institutional and disciplinary leaders in assessment an Indigenous health education and, a case example to illustrate how, when and why to use the assessment guide.

After lunch (2-4pm), Workshops: practical workshop-based discussion about how to use the guide to implement change in specific programs of Indigenous health education

Please indicate whether you would like to attend the workshops after the symposium. Places are limited. Lunch will be provided for the event.