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Learning, Teaching and Assessment Information and Resources

08/11/13

1) Staff Development sessions

After discussions with programme leaders and after reviewing student surveys, the Faculty would like to offer the following staff development sessions at Byrom St for interested staff:

· e-Marking basics

Training in Turnitin Grademark and the use of statement banks, these being particularly efficient means of annotating students’ work with commonly-used and detailed comments. e-Marking also facilitates the return of prompt feedback through Blackboard. This avoids the possibility of students missing paper-based feedback due to being absent from class.

· e-Marking rubrics

Training in Turnitin Grademark rubric libraries. For colleagues who already use Grademark and want an efficient means of clearly communicating to students how their mark was determined. This might addresses issues of fairness and may be of particular interest in those assessments where a team of markers are involved.

· Allocation of differentiated marks for members in group work

Training in WebPA. This open source software allows tutors to allocated an average mark to each group submitting work, the mark for individual group members been determined by the members’ perceptions of each other efforts. This will be of interest to programmes where students have complained about fairness in grades for group work where a single mark was allocated to all members of a group.

Please use this webform by Friday 15^th Nov to indicate which session(s) you would like to attend and which time is best for you. Sessions cannot be guaranteed if numbers are insufficient:

http://www.survey.ljmu.ac.uk/2013scssd

2) Online resource contains over 5000 fully searchable health record for London 1848 to 1973 (thank to Jim Turner)

This JISC project launched this week: London's Pulse

3) What is a scientist's role in society? (Thanks to Jackie Gresham)

An appeal for contributions from The Guardian Higher Education Network:

How can we encourage more joined-up thinking in science? | Web version

5 November 2013

What is a scientist's role in society? In a blog for the network this week, Michael Elves and Ian Gibson at Newton's Apple Foundation, talk about a disconnection between policy-makers and the scientific community and call for these two elements to be brought closer together. They say early career researchers need to learn how policy is made and assessed to encourage more joined-up thinking in science.

But this has to be a two-way process. So as a scientist, what would you say in a letter to politicians about how and why they should engage with the scientific community? What do you think they need to know about your work? If you fancy writing a letter, send us your ideas on what you would say; the most engaging piece will be published on the site.

Claire Shaw
Community journalist for Guardian Higher Education Network
claire.shaw@theguardian.com
Twitter @gdnhighered


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