3 March 2021: Student agency and confidence in assessment

Presenter: Simon McCallum (32Stylus, New Zealand; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Simon explored various approaches he has taken over 20 years to the challenge of engaging students. Drawing on his research in game development and player-focused approaches to creating experiences, he discussed agency, competence, and relatedness as psychological motivators and how assessment can support engagement, highlighting how the narrative description of assessment is as important as the mathematical correctness. Topics covered included confidence-based assessment, student selected rubric weighting, peer assessment, multichoice systems, online exams, and digital supported assessment.

Further information

• Slide Set: TA_webinar_3_mar_2021_slides.pdf [1.3MB]
• Chat Log including shared links (edited for clarity): TA_webinar_3_mar_2021_chat_log.txt
• Simon's VUoW profile.

Session Recording

View: Session recording in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra version (includes slides, audio and audience text chat).

View: Session recording on Youtube (slide stream and audio).

Shared links during the session

• Work by Tony Gardner-Medwin on CBM.:
  • Previous webinar on Confidence-based marking by Tony Gardner-Medwin http://transformingassessment.com/events_6_april_2011.php
  • Tony's work: https://www.tmedwin.net/~ucgbarg/pubteach.htm
  • https://tmedwin.net/~ucgbarg/tea/APT_2019_tgm.pdf
• Moodle docs on CBM. https://docs.moodle.org/310/en/Using_certainty-based_marking
• Peer created quiz/questions:
  • Moodle plugin activity: https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_studentquiz
  • Previous webinar on peer sourced questions PeerWise http://transformingassessment.com/events_1_august_2012.php
  • PeerWise https://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/docs/students
• Other references (in slides): 
  • Soderquist, H. O. (1936). A New Method of Weighting Scores in a True-False Test. The Journal of Educational Research, 30(4), 290–292. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27526229
  • Ebel, R. L. (1965). Confidence Weighting and Test Reliability. Journal of Educational Measurement, 2(1), 49–57. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1433833
  • Sieber, J. E. (1979). Confidence estimates on the correctness of constructed and multiple-choice responses. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 4(3), 272–287. https://doi.org/10.1016/0361-476X(79)90047-X
  • Stankov, L., Morony, S., & Lee, Y. P. (2014). Confidence: The best non-cognitive predictor of academic achievement? Educational Psychology, 34(1), 9–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2013.814194