Events

Assimilate is a three-year National Teaching Fellowship funded project investigating innovative assessment at Masters level.

The project team has been exploring practice in the UK and internationally over the last two years, with participants at our first  conference  in July 2011 contributing actively to this work. The project team has been using Activity Theory and Q methodology to help analyse the various case study data and to model educator perspectives on assessment practices . The project team will be presenting their findings at a conference in Leeds in September 2012 when the project culminates. The project team will be offering aground 60 free places at the conference, with preference being given to workshop presenters.

The September 2012 conference will include presentations by the Assimilate team, but will also showcase work from beyond the project on Masters level learning and assessment.  The organisers hope to have parallel 45 minute participative workshops on the following indicative themes:

1. Creative Masters level  assessment approaches;
2. Developing and demonstrating employability skills at Masters level;
3. Innovative alternatives to dissertations;
4. Using assessment to facilitate transitions from undergraduate to Masters level;
5. Diverse international approaches to assessment at Masters level.

If you are interested in presenting a workshop at the conference, please provide the information requested below.

Name (and title) of lead presenter:

Names of other presenters:

Institution (if applicable) :

Email:

Phone:

Theme:

Outline summary (200 words) of the topic and how you plan to engage the workshop participants:

Please send the above information to j.priestley@leedsmet.ac.uk by 1st February 2012.