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A Guide to Marking Guides!

What do we need to record in a Marking Guide and Why?

This 90-minute session provides quality content that will unpack the importance of marking guides and the critical components they need to include, and includes a 30-minute free-style element where our Competency Based Assessment Expert, John Dwyer, will address your live questions, Questions on Notice and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).

Marking guides, by whatever name, are a critical component of an assessment tool. They are a major vehicle through which the reliability of assessment judgements is controlled.

This session will look at various names applied to marking guides, will explore the importance of them for meeting the reliability principle of assessment and will look briefly at marking guide formatting. It will consider the difference between “satisfactory” and “competent” judgements and will discuss where these apply.

Finally, it will use a number of examples drawn from actual marking guides to consider the importance of ‘defining‘ within the marking guide, the use of model answers and what constitutes ‘satisfactory’ responses across a range of methods.

The session content will conclude at 60 minutes where the chat window feature will then be opened for any live questions from attendees. Questions on Notice are questions that you may submit prior to the event and these, along with other FAQs will also be addressed.

Not sure you will be able to attend the live event? Have a burning question about Marking Guides you would like answered by John?

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Key topics covered within the webinar

• what is included in a good marking guide?
• what is a “satisfactory” response and a “competent judgement”?
• the use of “model” answers
• situations where the responses are specific to a given situation
• ensuring that assessment activities capture the ”intent” of the unit
• using marking guides with observation checklists

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Date posted Aug 20, 2020