SLTCC2017 Examining the use of video assessments to promote and assess student learning (Dr Joel Rookwood)
1. Examining the use of video assessments
to promote and assess student learning
Dr Joel Rookwood
2. ‘In pursuit of excellence:
inspiring achievement through
transformative pedagogy’
• Philosophy, focus, remit, objective, challenge, responsibility
• Visual L&T methods: resistance and adoption
• PG provision: opportunity for development
• Pilot study: formative assessments
• Approach: Essential technicalities of the medium
• Suitability and limitations
Context
3. Visual Methods in L&T
• Higher Education:
- Visual presentations, diverse media; mainstream media landscape
- Partisans / producers / consumers (Bennett et al., 2017)
• Technology:
- Access, usability, expectancy, literacy, engagement (Morris & Wilson, 2017)
• Videography:
- Document, represent, interpret – experiences, projects, perspectives
- Tool for theory building and critique (MacDonald and MacLeod, 2017)
• Application:
- Teaching, learning, assessing, communicating, performing (Rookwood, 2017)
• Resistance:
- Marginal, risk, familiarity, convention, experience (Rookwood, 2017)
4.
5. ‘Football and favelas’,
Brazil – June 2014
‘The warm heart of Africa’,
Malawi – September 2014
‘A month in the life’,
Puerto Rico – August 2014
‘The Animals’,
Bulgaria – November 2014
‘Four days in the Faroes’,
Faroe Islands – May 2015
‘Valparaiso street art’,
Chile – June 2015
‘Galapagos’,
Ecuador – July 2015
‘Patagonia’,
Argentina – August 2015
Joel Rookwood - Films
‘Walking the coast’,
Isle of Man – April 2016
‘Sport for Tibet’,
India – April 2010
‘The Sarajevo derby’,
Bosnia – March 2017
‘Where were you in Istanbul?’,
Turkey – January 2006
‘The other World Cup:
Football Across Borders’,
Georgia – December 2016
‘Voices across the Wall’,
Israel/Palestine – January 2008
‘War and peace’,
Rwanda – forthcoming:
November 2017
6.
7. Pilot Study
Marking Criteria:
• Technical proficiency
• Creativity
• Content
• Research and evidence
• Design and presentation
8.
9. Response, impact, suitability and limitations
• Engagement:
- Response: 72% – 17 group films, 7 CVs (Varied quality)
- Impact: steep learning curve https://vimeo.com/222125611
• Suitability and limitations:
- Relevance, ‘Only formative’, experience, training, supervision – transferable (Federici, 2017)
• MA provision:
- Exploratory - Future application?
- Dependant on staff expertise, interest, perception, engagement
• Graduate employability requirements:
- Organisation, networking, creativity, communication (Rothwell and Rothwell, 2017)
- Communication: Creative, visual, diverse, engaging (Cornelissen, 2017)
• Preparation:
- Real world challenges and expectations – what do students need to learn and do?