2.5 Investigating formative frameworks
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The document discusses investigating formative frameworks to understand how students' prior educational experiences influence their engagement and benefits from interventions. It involved students and staff in business management units. Stage 1 gathered staff and student viewpoints through interviews and surveys. Stage 2 sought to identify if students recognized changes and reflected key areas. The intervention designed formative tasks to complement lectures and assessments. Outcomes showed most students recognized changes and found tasks helped understand assessments. Next steps include a focus group to address issues around feedback. The document defines formative as creating or producing through effort to change composition, with activities supporting a formative process involving content, environment, teachers and assessment.
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“Not very [useful] as it is a very minor part of assessment.”
“time slots for individuals (one week)”;
“More details and in depth about the whole thing and more clear and direct as
well”
“In class feedback individually based”.
“More specific to each person”](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/investigatingformativeframeworks-160726090631/85/2-5-Investigating-formative-frameworks-7-320.jpg)
![Outcomes
Notice change Understanding Assessment Practice, Preparation and Feedback
18 student recognised
change
5 did not…
“They ALL relate to the
assignment”
“Related to work a lot
more”
“More specific theory that
relates directly to the
assignment”
“…Relevant exercises”
“[the activity or tutor] teaches subject
relevant to assessment very generally”.
“Some bits have been and some have not”
“Given no clear direction”
“The activities have made me to understand
how I need to do my assessment and what I
should put that can help me get the high
mark”.
“In depth information about what is
required”
“Its allowed me to discuss what needs to be
done clearly and I can go about it”
“It has helped as a lot of detail has been
given to make sure I know what is needed”
All but one agreed it helped
“All information was available for assessment”
“Providing exercises relevant to the assessment”
“The ones that help understand what you need
have been useful in the preparation”
“The Wednesday Seminars going through theory
from the lectures are good”
“More interactive has been helpful as it allows us
to directly talk about our company”
“The tools provided were very useful”
“Because helpful resources are given”
“Having talks about it and giving explanations”
“Step by step progress with group”
“Everything explained clearly”](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/investigatingformativeframeworks-160726090631/85/2-5-Investigating-formative-frameworks-10-320.jpg)
2.5 Investigating formative frameworks
- 1. Investigating Formative Frameworks SLTI / School of Business and Law
- 2. The background Responding to the strategic objectives of the Director of the school of Business and Law: To understand how students’ prior educational experience influenced how they engaged with and benefited from different formative interventions.
- 3. The project 1. What do existing assessment strategies look like from a staff and student perspective? 2. Could this reveal ways of enhancing their effectiveness? 3. Could this help understand and anticipate the impact of varied educational backgrounds?
- 4. The Approach Involved students and staff engaged in two level 5 Business Management units (BIS249 and BIS250). Built around an action research model that would allow interventions to be planned, tested and evaluated.
- 5. Stage 1 Gathering staff and student viewpoints: 1. Interviews with staff. 2. Survey of students: • understanding the assignment brief • developing relevant knowledge and skills • Practice and feedback
- 6. Outcomes: Staff Students Group work: • To promote effective learning • To allow more ‘authentic’ assessment Seminars: • For discussion around learning and assessment • To support tutors in giving personalised feedback • To facilitate group working Drawbacks: • Engagement Understanding the assignment brief: • Explanations in seminars (12) • Electronic and paper based resources (9) • Tutors answering student enquiries (2) developing relevant knowledge and skills: • Group work (6) • increased self-belief • ability to test and acquire ideas • feedback from peers, tutors and other contributors. • Seminar activities: • mind mapping • Gantt charts • fishbone diagrams • Referencing Feedback and Preparation: • 13:7 on whether preparation was effective
- 7. However “Not very [useful] as it is a very minor part of assessment.” “time slots for individuals (one week)”; “More details and in depth about the whole thing and more clear and direct as well” “In class feedback individually based”. “More specific to each person”
- 8. The intervention Formative tasks were specifically designed to complement the lecture material and the summative assessment task, they were: • introduced and explained in the lecture sessions • provided students with an opportunities to practice using a particular consultancy tool or model on a weekly basis. • facilitated by the seminar tutor who gives direct feedback on their approach to using the tool within their live brief. • Promoted to students as resources that could be included as appendices in the assessed report
- 9. Stage 2 In this survey the questions: 1. Sought to identify if students were conscious that mechanisms had changed 2. Otherwise reflected the areas of enquiry targeted in the first survey
- 10. Outcomes Notice change Understanding Assessment Practice, Preparation and Feedback 18 student recognised change 5 did not… “They ALL relate to the assignment” “Related to work a lot more” “More specific theory that relates directly to the assignment” “…Relevant exercises” “[the activity or tutor] teaches subject relevant to assessment very generally”. “Some bits have been and some have not” “Given no clear direction” “The activities have made me to understand how I need to do my assessment and what I should put that can help me get the high mark”. “In depth information about what is required” “Its allowed me to discuss what needs to be done clearly and I can go about it” “It has helped as a lot of detail has been given to make sure I know what is needed” All but one agreed it helped “All information was available for assessment” “Providing exercises relevant to the assessment” “The ones that help understand what you need have been useful in the preparation” “The Wednesday Seminars going through theory from the lectures are good” “More interactive has been helpful as it allows us to directly talk about our company” “The tools provided were very useful” “Because helpful resources are given” “Having talks about it and giving explanations” “Step by step progress with group” “Everything explained clearly”
- 11. Next steps Must remember this is a tool to aid planning, not concrete evidence for the impact of assessment. A number of issues remain ambiguous: • Lots of students wanted feedback that was more ‘in depth’, ‘more detailed’ and more specific. • How is it that even students who recognised the value of group working as a formative experience wanted more one to one engagement Need for a focus group.
- 12. Nevertheless… An effective formative strategy should enable a constructive bridge between teaching & learning activities and the summative tasks, facilitating additional feedback to students and providing relevant learning value to formative tasks
- 13. What do we mean by formative Understanding the formative dimension: • Formulate : To create, invent or produce by careful effort. • Transform : To change in composition or structure, character or condition Both terms imply a ‘something’ (the self)
- 14. Activities Formative process Envisioning the formative Content Environment Teachers Shared, negotiated and visible. Internal and owned by the student Assessment Support
Editor's Notes
- #15: Whether we are using the term formative in relation to learning or assessment or whether we deliverately stand back from distinguishing between the two, we understand that