Milestone - based assessment: an alternative continuous assessment strategy for laboratory learning outcomes
Engineering programs often feature units that contain a semester-long laboratory project, in which students complete an extended piece of work throughout the full duration of the semester. This paper presents an alternative assessment approach called “Milestone-Based Marking”. As students make incre...
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| description | Engineering programs often feature units that contain a semester-long laboratory project, in which students complete an extended piece of work throughout the full duration of the semester. This paper presents an alternative assessment approach called “Milestone-Based Marking”. As students make incremental progress they can claim incremental marks, and are able to receive incremental feedback on their progress. Each of the milestones is rated for difficulty – Easy, Standard, Hard or Challenging. Easy milestones require less effort than Hard milestones, providing students with a clear guide as to how best to invest their time and effort. This approach changes the nature of the assessment from a purely summative process to a largely formative process. This approach has been used successfully across a number of units, with students indicating that they believe that the approach is fair, and that it better supports their learning. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-274462022-11-21T06:47:08Z Milestone - based assessment: an alternative continuous assessment strategy for laboratory learning outcomes Lindsay, Euan L. Mann A. Thompson P. Howard Engineering programs often feature units that contain a semester-long laboratory project, in which students complete an extended piece of work throughout the full duration of the semester. This paper presents an alternative assessment approach called “Milestone-Based Marking”. As students make incremental progress they can claim incremental marks, and are able to receive incremental feedback on their progress. Each of the milestones is rated for difficulty – Easy, Standard, Hard or Challenging. Easy milestones require less effort than Hard milestones, providing students with a clear guide as to how best to invest their time and effort. This approach changes the nature of the assessment from a purely summative process to a largely formative process. This approach has been used successfully across a number of units, with students indicating that they believe that the approach is fair, and that it better supports their learning. 2008 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27446 http://search.informit.org/documentSummary;dn=316929189744744;res=IELENG CQUniversity fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Lindsay, Euan Milestone - based assessment: an alternative continuous assessment strategy for laboratory learning outcomes |
| title | Milestone - based assessment: an alternative continuous assessment strategy for laboratory learning outcomes |
| title_full | Milestone - based assessment: an alternative continuous assessment strategy for laboratory learning outcomes |
| title_fullStr | Milestone - based assessment: an alternative continuous assessment strategy for laboratory learning outcomes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Milestone - based assessment: an alternative continuous assessment strategy for laboratory learning outcomes |
| title_short | Milestone - based assessment: an alternative continuous assessment strategy for laboratory learning outcomes |
| title_sort | milestone - based assessment: an alternative continuous assessment strategy for laboratory learning outcomes |
| url | http://search.informit.org/documentSummary;dn=316929189744744;res=IELENG http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27446 |