Practical Work with Report
This page describes an implementation of an assessment method by a lecturer or group of lecturers. The content of the page is the result of an interview conducted through the RAFT project in DIT in the 2013-14 Academic Year.
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Lecturer and Contact Detials
Programme and year on which assessment was offered
Description
Practical visualisation work and writing a short report.
What have you found are the advantages of using this form of assessment?
- Tests students skills to develop visualization solutions for datasets with all of the issues they are likely to encounter in real data in their careers.
- Lots of flexibility in the work that students could do
- Connects classroom work to the bigger practice and research communities
What have you found are the dis-advantages of using this form of assessment?
- Flexibility was a challenge for some students
- Some students found if difficult to settle on a dataset to use and wasted a lot of time flip-flopping between multiple sources.
- Marking visualizations is quite challenging as there is a risk of the marker being overly subjective.
Alternatives
Essay type assessments can be separated into collection /review of relevant resources, development of plan/schedule/synopsis of proposed work, concept map/flow chart of work in progress, executive summaries, bibliographies etc
Assessment in Practice
- Not suitable for very large classes due to the report nature of the submission and the marking burden.
- Suitable for group work.
Assessment Time
- Preparation time: ~5 hours
- Student time to complete: ~18 hours
- Marking time: ~8 hours
- Ease of Feedback: Written feedback to each group
