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David Maxwell & Lynnette Flynn, Charles Sturt University The Test Centre tool was implemented to aid student reflection; to inform the teaching approach and for subject assessment purposes. The challenges the subject coordinator experienced; initial student attitudes and suggested areas for improvement will be addressed. This presentation reviews an initial utilisation of the Test Centre tool by the subject coordinator of an undergraduate distance subject ‘Advertising Principles’ (Bachelor of Media Communication. This subject requires students to gain an understanding of complex concepts in the advertising process: research, positioning, strategy, creative execution and media selection. There is a need to progressively assess student learning throughout the subject. This is required for a number of reasons: as an aid to students reflecting and monitoring their learning; for student progress to inform the teaching approach of the subject, and to obtain evidence of student learning for assessment purposes. This presentation examines the assumed level of knowledge and intuitiveness of the user required for successful test implementation to meet assessment requirements of the subject. The outcomes of the implementation and students attitudes to the test centre tool will be explored. The subject coordinator and educational designer will make suggestions for further developments and improvement to the tool.
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Using the Test centre tool: an opportunity to inform learning
and teaching
David MaxwellSchool of Communication, Charles Sturt University
Lynnette FlynnLearning and Teaching Services, Charles Sturt University
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Why?
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Snap shot of the virtual class
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Why?
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Test as done by Internal students
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Decisions…
What are the options?
What are the timeframes?
What are the known issues?
Decisions made!
Initially 75 questions (5 topics) needed before the mid semester break, and
75 (5 topics) in week 12
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Questions loaded!
Table of Contents – as the student sees it
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Set up
Announcement to students
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An individual question – as the students sees it
What did it look like?
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Success?
Grade submission screen
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Lessons learned
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Lessons learned
Start loading the questions as early as possible – and beware of formatting issues!
Consider pos and cons of randomisation
Pre-circulate the planned test window dates and times. This appeared to reduce the problem of non-completion.
Avoid religious festivals!
Investigate the special access function
Consider how many attempts you want to give the students…
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Lessons learned
Editing screen
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Lessonslearned
Question with formatting problems
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The future?
Make more user friendly / intuitive (terminology?)
Enable result data to be sorted numerically (in order of testing) as well as alphabetically
Enable result data to be re-processed into charts or graphs to assist verification of testing objectives
Provide the ability to export the results as a block into an excel spreadsheet rather than one by one
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“The content definitely helped with my learning of certain advertising concepts, as well as jargon and relationships between agencies and their clients. This was possible because we were able to review the test once we'd taken it, and it continued to be available to us throughout the duration of the course, allowing us to refer back to it whenever we wanted”.
