Assessment through multimedia creation Andrew.M.Cox, Ana Cristina Vasconcelos & Peter HoldridgeDepartment of Information Studies, University of Sheffield

MAIK projectHEA-ICS General Development fund

• By Julie Tiler, Ariane Schaer & Marc Bonne

• (MS Moviemaker)

This talk

1. Paper on “initial considerations” in your conference proceedings

2. Full draft paper available (orange paper)

3. This presentation

Reasons to assess through MM creation

• Requires significant synthesis and reflection

• Reconfiguration of group work

• The translation of book knowledge into a more visual/aural form, own examples

• Collaborative skills, project management, problem solving, creativity

Reasons to assess through MM creation II• YouTube and podcasting etc

• Discussion about assessment in general reduces the hidden curriculum

• Authentic as multimedia may be increasingly used in organisations

• Reusable teaching content, produced by students

Problems• Might focus on technical proficiency and superficial

presentation not intellectual content• Education as spectacle

• Inequalities in familiarity with MM creation (e.g. based on gender)

• Any change in assessment methods produces uncertainty and the unexpected

• Coherence across the programme • Implications for all aspects of the module – time consuming

Choices

• Evaluation of pre-existing knowledge/skills

• Character and structuring of assessment package

• Software

• Form of support

• What assessment criteria & how decide on them

• Copyright

Group MM 30%

Plans 10%

Individual discussion 20%

Individual reflection 10%

Powerpoint

Photostory

Moviemaker

Evaluation

• Our reflections within action research model

• Student evaluations & informal discussions

• MM themselves

Some reflections• High quality work, all addressed substantive

intellectual question• Increased student engagement• Continuing stress about criteria despite our best

efforts• Subtle changes to group work• Time consuming• Relevant technical skills are media not IT

• By Katy Latham, Amar Gor & John Chapman

• MS photostory

• By Georgina Roper, Stacey Sime & Jessica Butterfield

• MS Powerpoint

More information

• Project web site, http://tiny.cc/UKXOf http://www.good.group.shef.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Assessment_through_multimedia_creation

• To view the MM creations and further discussion• A.M.Cox (a.m.cox@sheffield.ac.uk),

• Ana Cristina Vasconcelos (a.c.vasconcelos@sheffield.ac.uk)

• & Peter Holdridge (p.g.holdridge@sheffield.ac.uk)