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Rebecca McCreadyLearning and Teaching AdvisorSchool of Medical Sciences Education Development
The IT Skills Certificate of Attainment
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Content• Which IT skills and why?• Teaching in the curriculum• IT skills assessment
models• The Certificate• Feedback• Improvements for 2011/12
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Which IT skills?• Essay Management• Using Word• Images and tables• Long documents• EndNote (with Library)
• Data Management• Excel• Access
• Presentation Skills• PowerPoint• Posters
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Why is it important?• The 1997 Dearing Report review of HE:• Recommendations on key skills including
use of information technology.» Yorke (2006)
• Greater and more complex use of IT in curriculum.
• Development takes time and practise.» Yorke (2006)
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Teaching in the curriculum
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
EssaysDataPresentations
PresentationsSupport for dissertation
BSc PSYCHOLOGY
Data EssaysPresentations
EssaysDissertationSupport
BSc BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
Essential to link skills taught to skills assessed
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Integration is important
“In no case can skills development be ‘boxed off’ from the rest of the curriculum, since students develop through a range of curricular (and extra-curricular) engagements.”
» Yorke and Knight (2006)
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Assessment Model: Biomed Sci
• Data Handling and Spreadsheet Skills
• Supports Pharmacology module• Assessed on attendance,
completion, coursework
Stage 1
• Document Management 01• Supports a range of word processed
coursework• Assessed on attendance,
completion, coursework
Stage 2
• Document Management 02• Supports a range of word-processed
coursework• Assessed on attendance,
completion, coursework• Document Management 03• Supports dissertation• Assessed on attendance and
completion
Stage 3
Formative feedback
Summative assessmentFormative feedback
Formative feedback
Formative feedback
All attended and
completed =
Certificateawarded
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Assessment Model: Psychology
Essay Managem
ent
PSY1001
(Text)
PSY1010
(Objects)
Formatted essay and
report
Data Handling
PSY1010
Experiment write up
Presentation Skills
PSY1001
Delivered presentation
Summative assessment
Stage 1
All attended and
assessed = Certificateawarded
Also includes Library Skills assessment
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Skills assessed – PSY1001• Marked by Library staff
(5%):• Search grid;• Medline or PsycInfo.
• Marked by IT staff (5%):• School template;• Use of styles;• Next page breaks;• EndNote and APA 5th style.
• Marked by Module Leader:• Presentation skills (10%).• Essay content (80%).
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Skills assessed – Certificate only• PSY1010 report:• Captions and cross-
references;• Management of images
and tables.• Excel: • Coursework submission in
PSY1010.
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Feedback provided
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Why assess?
“Curriculum goals should be assessed because that which is assessed gets taken seriously. That which isn’t, doesn’t.”
» Yorke and Knight (2006)
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Resits
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Student success
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
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90
26
17
Pass rate for Certificate of At-tainment
Failed
Passed after refresher
Passed first time
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Skills covered detailed on back.
Distributed March 2011.
~60p/certificate
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Why provide a Certificate?• Students need to be ‘knowing students’.
» Knight and Yorke (2006)
• Need help with claims to complex achievements that cannot be assessed by more traditional means.
» Knight and Yorke (2006)
• Employability skills should be assessed.» UKCES (2010)
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Feedback from Psychology
4%
54%
29%
5%
8%
Have the skills helped you with your academic work?
1.Strongly Agree2.Agree3.Neutral4.Disagree5.Strongly Disagree
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Feedback from Psychology
Assessment in PSY1001Assessment in other modules
Certificate of AttainmentUsefulness of the skills
Increasing employabilityGetting feedbackGeneral interest
OtherI wasn’t motivated
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%59%
33%49%
22%26%
12%6%
8%35%
What motivated you to learn the skills covered by the certificate?
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Feedback from Psychology
0%10%20%30%40%
0% 3%12%
35% 36%
15%
Do you use the skills for other non-academic work, such as voluntary
or paid work?
}15%
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Feedback from Psychology
1.Yes, need to produce as evidence
2.Yes, listed out in application form
3.Yes, made reference to in interview
4.No, not yet
5.Don’t expect to use at all
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
4%
5%
3%
88%
10%
Has the certificate enabled you to doc-ument these skills for interview, job
application etc?
12%}
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Feedback from Psychology
12%
51%
22%
9%
6%
Do you value having this Certi-ficate?
Strongly AgreeAgreeNeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree
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ImprovementsCourse revisions• Information Skills
Assimilation: essay formatting skills only.
• Writing a lab report:• Managing images
and tables;• Using captions,
cross-references;• Inserting equations.
Admin improvements• Clarify and simplify
requirements.• Simplify the
administration.• Provide feedback
electronically.• Make the physical
certificate more generic.
NEW
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Conclusion
Taught Assessed Used
The Certificate:
Focuses learning; Encourages uptake and use; Raises awareness of skills learnt; Rewards achievement; Provides evidence of employability skills.
Key skills need to be
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References• Knight, P. T. and M. Yorke (2006).
Employability: judging and communicating achievements. York, Higher Education Academy.
• UK Commission for Employment and Skills (2010). Employability: Incentivising Improvement. London, UKCES.
• Yorke, M. (2006). Employability in higher education: what it is – what it is not. York, Higher Education Academy.
• Yorke, M. and P. T. Knight (2006). Embedding employability into the curriculum. York, Higher Education Academy.
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Further Information• Contact
[email protected]• x4542• Visit http://fms-itskills.ncl.ac.uk.
• To discuss delivering and supporting IT skills in your curriculum