Digital dashboards for assessment | T&L Week 2023

Join us for a seminar featuring four disciplinary case studies followed by open discussions on innovative uses of digital assessment data and dashboards in education.

Session participants will consider how digital dashboards can:

• enable students to monitor their own learning, identify areas for improvement, and set realistic goals and actions in response to feedback information
• facilitate identification of students at risk, enable early intervention and coaching of students
• optimise longitudinal feedback processes and support a whole of program assessment strategy
• challenge different ways of thinking about assessment and feedback processes.

The 4 case studies are:

• enhancing digital dashboard design through connection (co-design) (ITaLI, Medicine & Veterinary Science)
• feedback to trigger engagement and self-evaluation during placements (Veterinary Science program). A real-time dashboard that enables a dynamic overview of how students engage during placements as they develop their competencies. Discussion will include the findings from a pilot study where the MyProgress platform is used to promote a shift to learning-orientated assessment where students self-evaluate before receiving daily feedback from supervisors to efficiently guide their learning during the placement experience
• leveraging dashboards to identify student engagement during WIL (Medicine & ITaLI data analytics). In the clinical years of the medical program, students participate in healthcare processes whilst learning, so capturing student development during placements is important. Challenges have emerged in considering how information from novel large digital data sets can support students to make the most of learning opportunities, while also meeting the needs of staff to identify students who may be struggling to perform in such unpredictable learning environments. In this presentation, we will outline data analysis work examining student patterns of engagement in WBAs across the year
• optimising longitudinal feedback processes using dashboards (Medicine): MD Design has adopted a whole of program system of assessment. This is underpinned by student self-monitoring, guided feedback conversations with staff and a whole of cohort progress review Parprocess to identify at-risk students. We will demonstrate how the aggregation of a wide variety of assessment information (qualitative and quantitative) into a dashboard has supported our longitudinal student self-review and feedback processes.
• This seminar has application for the wider context of student learning in the WIL setting. It will offer any practice profession an avenue to share their ideas about how to navigate opportunities for utilising digital data sets to facilitate learning.

Presenters:

• Helen Wozniak, Faculty of Medicine
• Justine Gibson , Science Faculty
• Aaron Herndon, Science Faculty
• Alison Ledger, Faculty of Medicine
• Chantal Bailey, Faculty of Medicine
• Shari Bowker, Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation
• Asela Olupeliyawa , Faculty of Medicine
• Anna Kull, Faculty of Medicine
• Christine Devine, Faculty of Medicine
• Christy Noble, Faculty of Medicine
• Kym Ward , Faculty of Medicine
• Samuel Monk , Faculty of Medicine.

Student Partners:

• Kathryn Bird, year 3 medical student
• Daniel Ochay, year 3 medical student
• Zack Kodiyattu, year 4 veterinary science student
• Zachary Low, year 4 veterinary science student.

Please note that this is a hybrid event. If you are an online attendee, the Zoom link will be sent out 48 hours prior to the event. If you are attending in-person, the exact location will be sent to you via email 2 days before the event.

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