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DUT Devises Pointers on Assessment for Learning

DUT Devises Pointers on Assessment for Learning

DUT recently hosted the third annual Learning, Teaching and Assessment (LTA) Symposium at the Hotel School, Ritson Campus, where Assessment for Learning was the main agenda.

The three-day workshop was attended by academics from various universities, including DUT, Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) as well as the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) who reflected on their work as university teachers.

The event was co-ordinated by the DUT Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT). “We need to change the attitude of staff before we can change the attitudes of students,” said CELT Director, Professor Thengani Ngwenya.

Key speaker and facilitator of the workshop, Dr Tansy Jessop, engaged in a brain storming session with attending lecturers which was later followed by a question and answer session where she attended to the audience (lecturers) questions. Dr Jessop is head of Learning and Teaching at the University of Winchester, United Kingdom. She leads the TESTA National Teaching Fellowship Project, and is Project Manager of FASTECH. Dr Jessop started her career as a secondary school teacher in South Africa and completed a PhD on teaching development in rural primary schools in KwaZulu-Natal. Dr Jessop worked with universities in the UK and Australia as an education consultant, worked for the British Council, the UK’s Development for International Development as well as the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

On day one, DUT academics looked at the context, importance of context in assessment and feedback and how to get students to learn from assessments. On day two, Dr Jessop looked at some of the prevailing myths that exist in universities in the UK, Australia and India as well as data from DUT about how a modular and semester system sometimes has an unintended outcome. The day also entailed presentations conducted by DUT lecturers on the innovative research-work they have conducted.

Professor of Education at UKZN, Prof Wayne Hugo, delivered an interesting presentation on When Does Assessment Help Learning and When Does it Sabotage Learning.

During the last day of the workshop, Professor Ngwenya looked at the new DUT Assessment Policy.

“I feel extremely positive at the passion and interest of staff at DUT to bring about massive culture shift in how assessments operate and how students learn”, said Dr Jessop. She added that the sense of enthusiasm, interest and intellectual energy and how staff has interacted with the idea of assessment for learning is exciting and she hopes it will translate into something that programme teams work on together in the curriculum design division.

-Talent Buthelezi

from left to right: Head of Learning and Teaching at the University of Winchester, Dr Tansy Jessop, together with the Director of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at DUT, Professor Thengani Ngwenya.

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DUT Devises Pointers on Assessment for Learning

DUT recently hosted the third annual Learning, Teaching and Assessment
(LTA) Symposium at the Hotel School, Ritson Campus, where Assessment for Learning was the main agenda.

The three-day workshop was attended by academics from various universities, including DUT, Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) as well as the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) who reflected on their work as university teachers.

The event was co-ordinated by the DUT Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT). “We need to change the attitude of staff before we can change the attitudes of students,” said CELT Director, Professor Thengani Ngwenya.

Key speaker and facilitator of the workshop, Dr Tansy Jessop, engaged in a brain storming session with attending lecturers which was later followed by a question and answer session where she attended to the audience (lecturers) questions. Dr Jessop is head of Learning and Teaching at the University of Winchester, United Kingdom. She leads the TESTA National Teaching Fellowship Project, and is Project Manager of FASTECH. Dr Jessop started her career as a secondary school teacher in South Africa and completed a PhD on teaching development in rural primary schools in KwaZulu-Natal. Dr Jessop worked with universities in the UK and Australia as an education consultant, worked for the British Council, the UK’s Development for International Development as well as the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

On day one, DUT academics looked at the context, importance of context in assessment and feedback and how to get students to learn from assessments. On day two, Dr Jessop looked at some of the prevailing myths that exist in universities in the UK, Australia and India as well as data from DUT about how a modular and semester system sometimes has an unintended outcome. The day also entailed presentations conducted by DUT lecturers on the innovative research-work they have conducted.

Professor of Education at UKZN, Prof Wayne Hugo, delivered an interesting presentation on When Does Assessment Help Learning and When Does it Sabotage Learning.

During the last day of the workshop, Professor Ngwenya looked at the new DUT Assessment Policy.

“I feel extremely positive at the passion and interest of staff at DUT to bring about massive culture shift in how assessments operate and how students learn”, said Dr Jessop. She added that the sense of enthusiasm, interest and intellectual energy and how staff has interacted with the idea of assessment for learning is exciting and she hopes it will translate into something that programme teams work on together in the curriculum design division.

– Talent Buthelezi

Pictured from left to right: Head of Learning and Teaching at the University of Winchester, Dr Tansy Jessop, together with the Director of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at DUT, Professor Thengani Ngwenya.

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