WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.440 Assessing group work 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:14.400 The intended learning outcomes should be the starting point when developing an assessment criteria for group work. 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:21.840 Criteria should be transparent, logical, constructively aligned, and reward appropriate group behaviour. 00:00:21.840 --> 00:00:34.440 You may need to develop different criteria for the product and process of group work if you are assessing both, and consider criteria for peer assessment if this is a feature of your strategy. 00:00:34.440 --> 00:00:46.560 Group work assessment criteria must make clear to students how marks are balanced between both the individual student's effort and the group's effort, process of group work and the product. 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:52.500 In addition, there are a number of other important assessor and criteria questions to answer: 00:00:52.500 --> 00:00:55.800 Who is going to decide the criteria? 00:00:55.800 --> 00:00:59.640 Tutor or students or both? 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:07.450 Co-designing criteria with students can have a positive impact upon group working as well as promoting assessment literacy. 00:01:07.450 --> 00:01:11.650 You also need to consider who is assessing. 00:01:11.650 --> 00:01:19.090 Will it be you, members of the module team, external assessors, industry professionals, or the students? 00:01:19.090 --> 00:01:25.270 If students are assessing group work, will you use self-assessment and/or peer-assessment? 00:01:25.270 --> 00:01:31.270 Will they be assessing academic quality of outputs or contributions to the group processes? 00:01:31.270 --> 00:01:34.090 Or a combination of the two? 00:01:34.090 --> 00:01:40.750 If the quality of outputs is assessed, will students assess members of their own group or the work produced by other groups? 00:01:40.750 --> 00:01:48.730 Whichever method you adopt, it will be vital that all assessors have a shared understanding of assessment criteria and standards. 00:01:48.730 --> 00:01:55.150 Which means you will need to think how this can be achieved, and integrate this into your strategy.