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Video-based formative assessment for professional learning [332]

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Thu, Dec 12 2019, 10:45am – 11:30am

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Unlike traditional approaches to assessment and feedback, formative assessment coupled with feedforward offers students a high degree of control (Ferrell and Gray 2013) and emphasises their future development and positive improvement (Gonzalez 2018). It is not simply ‘given to’ students: they are responsible for deciding on success criteria, and assess their own performance and receive peer comments first before engaging in a dialogue with a tutor (Hine and Northeast 2016, Wheatley et al 2015).

Combining formative assessment and feedforward with video can enable students to improve their performance in a wide range of professional disciplines (Fukkink et al 2011). By viewing recordings of themselves and their peers, students can focus on professional behaviours targeted in their programmes. These include concrete microbehaviours, more holistic skills, and the verbal, paralingual and non-verbal aspects that support communication (Hargie and Dickson 2004). Video feedforward is most effective when it emphasises positive empowerment and a structured evaluation form is used to help students discover key elements of their behaviour and evaluate their performance (Fukkink et al 2011).

Recent advances in technology have made it possible for students to record themselves completing a task, upload their video to a secure platform and analyse and evaluate their performance using digital tools. These include the ability to view activities and interactions from multiple camera angles, edit recordings and search inside videos for instances of a particular word. Students can then post time-stamped reflective comments within their videos or share recordings with tutors and peers, who can also engage in a discussion around their performance, making specific recommendations for future improvement.

In this webinar, participants will explore formative assessment tasks related to professional disciplines taught at Hong Kong PolyU. They will then discuss and draft an action plan to integrate video-based formative assessment and feedforward in their own context.

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