Annual Professional Development Conference 2016 Wednesday 24 August

Annual Professional Development Conference 2016 Wednesday 24 August Research Skills: Models for Delivery – Standalone Assessment Kim Tree and Janet Strain Wednesday 24 th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Standalone Research Skills • Research skills can be assessed on standalone basis • Can be assessed on any topic chosen by candidate Wednesday 24 th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Standalone Research Skills In deciding if Research Skills is to be delivered on a standalone basis, consideration must be given to • Rationale for delivering on a standalone basis • Scheduling of Research Skills • Assessment Instrument Wednesday 24 th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Rationale Advantages • Students have had practice in researching, providing and presenting information • Preparation for project based Graded Unit • Better Graded Unit results • Additional communication/English skills Disadvantages • Additional work for students • May not finish Research Skills unit satisfactorily before start of project based Graded Unit Wednesday 24 th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Standalone Research Skills – Scheduling Activity Best Option/Worst option Wednesday 24 th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Assessment Instrument Standalone Research Skills will require an assessment instrument No CASP provided Centres will have to write their own assessment instrument – prior verification Wednesday 24 th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Assessment Instrument Activity Your task is to draft an assessment instrument for your Centre to use for Research Skills for standalone delivery Wednesday 24 th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Research Skills – True or False Question Answers 1. Research Skills does not need to be assessed FALSE 2. Research Skills must be assessed on its own FALSE 3. Research Skills has to be taught by the same person delivering the graded units. FALSE 4. The assessment of Research skills can be integrated with the assessment for another suitable Unit. TRUE 5. Internal verification needs to be completed for TRUE Research Skills even when the assessment is integrated with that from another Unit. Wednesday 24 th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Research Skills – True or False Question Answers 6. It is best to run Research Skills in the first semester FALSE of the first year of the HND. 7. A student can pass the Research Skills assessment TRUE whilst failing the Graded Unit it is assessed with. 8. A student must pass Research Skills to gain their HND. TRUE 9. Research Skills must be delivered 1. 5 hours per week. FALSE 10. The Business Graded 2 Unit is best delivered twice FALSE per week starting in semester 2 of year 2 of the HND. Wednesday 24 th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Research Skills – True or False Question Answers 11. When assessment for research skills is integrated, FALSE the centre doesn’t need to provide any delivery time for Research skills. 12. It is best to start Business Graded unit 2 several weeks before staring Research Skills. FALSE 13. ‘Long and thin’ delivery means the hours per week TRUE for delivery are reduced, and the number of weeks for delivery is increased. 14. It is impossible to timetable a subject so delivery starts part way into semester 1 and finishes part way into semester 2. Wednesday 24 th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills FALSE

Research Skills– True or False Question Answers 15. Research Skills and Business Graded Unit 2 must FALSE be assessed by the same tutor when the two assessments are integrated. 16. Where two different tutors deliver Research Skills and Business graded Unit 2, it is essential they work closely together. TRUE 17. When an integrated assessment is used for Research Skills, the Units can be delivered by different tutors, but assessed by one tutor. TRUE Wednesday 24 th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Any questions? Wednesday 24 th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills