Integrated assessments - Engaging ways to enhance learner outcomes

Learner centred, Student engagement, Work-integrated learning, Employability, Supporting learners, Teaching strategies, Assessment

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Completed: 23 December 2010

In this publication Helen McPhun describes integrated assessments as a process whereby learners have enhanced opportunities for relevance and engagement.

This approach, which integrates the assessment of multiple topics and processes in realistic scenarios provides a bridge connecting the learner, higher education, and the workplace (Brown, cited in Mandell & Michelson, 2004, p. 2).

Helen McPhun

McZoom Ltd Consultancy and LEARNPLUS PTE

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Key points to note

Any tertiary provider can adopt a process to design integrated assessments. It requires a combination of skills and abilities that include:
- outside the box thinking
- inside the box compliance
- creative and imaginative ideas
- systematic and logical processes
- comprehensive understanding of graduate career opportunities
- real understanding of the true context, feel and immediacy of the world in which graduates will work.
Solid understanding of the principles of adult learning and an informed and experienced view on workplace realities, opportunities and consequences are needed.
Integrated assessments can be applied in any educational institution that truly wants to prepare learners for the realities they may face in their future careers.
Integrated assessments provide engaging ways to enhance learner outcomes.

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