To assist programme teams, discipline boards and schools to consider Authentic Assessment for their programmes, the Prof Assess Project Team have developed a number of Workshop resources that are available here for self use or which TU Dublin's Learning, Teaching and Assessment staff can use to deliver a workshop on Authentic Assessment for your team. Please contact lta@tudublin.ie if you would like more details.
These workshop resources include:
Diamond Nine Professional Competency Exercise
This exercise supports teams to discuss the importance of Professional Competencies and helps develop a shared understanding of the importance of developing professional competency. Groups are provided with a set of cards, each listing a Professional Competency plus some blank cards. The Group decide on the nine most important Professional Competencies for their programme / professional and rank them into a diamond nine prioritisation.
To support this exercise a blank Diamond Nine Grid is available and sample set of Professional Competency Examples.
The output from this exercise could be photographed and built on with an Assessment and Professional Competency Constructive Alignment exercise.
Assessment and Professional Competency Constructive Alignment Exercise
Workgroups are given a set of Professional Competency Examples Cards and a set of Assessment Type Examples and asked to select the assessment types that best develop and measure the professional competency.
The purpose of this exercise is to stimulate discussion on the types
of assessment and generating ideas for assessment that can be
developed further by programme teams after the workshop
Review of Programme Assessment
A number of the resources in the Authentic Assessment toolkit can be used in workshop format to review the current perception of authenticity on a programme and prompt discussion within programme teams.
Programme Team Members can be asked to select an existing assesment and use the Authenticity Radar Diagram to consider the current indicators of authenticity in that assessment. On completion of this task participants can be asked to discuss how these indicators may be enhanced or they may look across a range of diagrams for a programme to consider the totality of indicators for that programme and consider where enhancements might be made.
Similarly workshop participants could be asked to plot the assessments in a programme on the Quadrant of Authenticity Indicators or on to the Realism TrajectoryFeedback Process Trajectory Cognitive Challenge Trajectory and Critical Reflection Trajectory to see the profile of assessment across a year or a programme.
Following on from these excercises the programme teams can use the resources in Developing a Continuum of Authenticity across a Programme to further consider how authenticity can be built across a programme.
Design Sprint Workshop
This is a condensed design sprint workshop resource that can be used to undertake a structured and programme-focused authentic assessment strategy design process, providing opportunities for you to share practices and develop new ideas with your colleagues.
The Design Sprint consists of 5 steps:
During the Design Sprint, participants work to complete the Design Sprint Grid Template
Detailed instructions for running a Design Sprint Workshop are available from lta@tudublin.ie