Exploring Approaches to Work Based Assessment
This seminar considered key theoretical perspectives on work-based assessment.
It discussed:
The nature of work-based learning and its role in:
Developing key graduate skills
The wider life-long learning society.
Different approaches to work-based learning practice, including the new apprenticeship model.
The context of learning, including the role and responsibilities of both the learner and the employer, with a focus on authentic assessment approaches that support individualised learning.
Participants were encouraged to bring along module descriptors, related to learning in the workplace, so that these theoretical perspectives could be applied to practice.
n the workshop component, participants, in small groups, discussed, critiqued and developed the methods and processes that they currently use to assess placements in their own disciplines. They were encouraged to examine the ways in which current theory and best practice could inform and develop their disciplinary approaches.