Integrated Assessment Task

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Integrated Assessment Task

• Initial ideas for discussion

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Programme Level outcomes

• Building capacity in three main subject areas
• English language competence and confidence
  (reading, writing, comprehension, and spoken
  language).
• Mathematical literacy skills and the ability to
  apply these skills in a range of contexts.
• Relevant ICT skills that students can apply
  practically in an education or work context.
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Programme level outcomes

• Providing a stimulating learning environment that
  encourages the development of relevant skills for
  living in a technological and global society,
  such as
• Inquiry, analysis, critical and creative
  thinking, problem solving and learning skills.
• Communication and presentation skills (verbal and
  written).
• Awareness and understanding of personal and
  social responsibility including,
• managing yourself and your relationships
• civic knowledge and engagement local and global
• knowledge of and respect for diversity
• Ethical reasoning and action

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Programme Level outcomes

• Offering students an orientation to higher
  education and the world of work
• Enabling students to make informed choices about
  post schooling opportunities in higher education
  and/or in the world of work.

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Skills for a Changing World Embracing Diversity

• Key elements
• Developing strategies for embracing diversity
  through a Diversity Action Challenge
• Groups of 5-10 students
• Work through a series of action challenges
  related to key diversity principles
• Keep a diversity action challenge journal write
  a paragraph reflecting on the specific action
  challenge
• Create a collage of newspaper/magazine examples
  of diversity issues
• Examples to be proud of
• Examples that we are saddened by
• Reflect on why the example is one to be proud of
  or saddened by, and draw out key lessons that can
  be learnt from these examples

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Skills for a Changing World Embracing Diversity

• Key elements continued
• Diversity in learning/career options students
  each research one learning option or career of
  relevance to one of their supplementary modules
  and produce a simple poster/website that
• Outlines the learning option/career
• Presents the positive and negative aspects of
  that choice
• Reflects on the type of people best suited to
  that learning option/career
• Each group is assigned a culture/group (not
  limited to South Africa) and have to research
  important celebrations in that culture, such as
  weddings, religious celebrations, special
  holidays and so on.

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Skills for a Changing World Embracing Diversity

• Celebration Day
• Each group presents (in any way they choose)
  examples of the cultural celebrations they
  researched this could include performances,
  examples of foods, costumes etc
• Each group will be provided with a small budget
  to prepare their celebration
• Reflective essay on the three most important
  lessons learnt in preparing for and participating
  in the Celebration Day

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1. Diversity challenge

• Create and present presentation on new campus
  that supports diversity various elements
• Organise diverse groups
• Assign group members to research diversity
• Report findings
• Justification of how campus will support
  diversity
• Create map
• PPT report findings to peer group
• Comments
• Assuming 10 notional hours
• Keep action challenge in module
• Focus on broader level
• So what why should I do this?
• Invading personal space
• Treat challenge like a game do it all together
• Part of orientation day, reflect on orientation
  experience, mechanisms for sharing later in
  programme, go deeper as the year progresses

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2. Diversity examples from newspapers etc

• Diverse pairs
• Create poster where they display evidence of
  diversity
• Photos of diverse activities
• Display posters at celebration day
• Rubric content, design and presentation,
  individual contribution and reflection on poster
• Pairs work well, nice to have something for
  celebration day
• Well known event and how people have responded to
  that
• Poster can become superficial
• More qualitative, how did those people feel etc
• How to use posters correctly
• Thematic collage
• Perspectives presented in newspapers on a
  specific incident
• South African and international papers
  internet, e.g googlenews
• Question what is truth?

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3. Learning/career options

• Choose from their optional module
• Present template of questionnaire interview
  people in career, and spend some time with the
  person during a working day
• Hand in report on this
• Celebration day
• Poster old, rather make ppt slide show
• Design a prospectus with the four different
  career types, hand out to other students
• Compile file on computer with job opportunities
  for that domain
• What opportunities are there in this career? E.g
  VUMA! portal
• Where are opportunities?
• Could have a computer available on the day for
  people to find out things about careers
• Timeframes do all modules up to end Oct and the
  focus on Celebration day activities

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4. Research culture/group

• Take diversity as defined in SA constitution
  shopping list of diversity groups, pick which
  group to focus on
• Research milestones/celebrations
• Short research report
• Presentation of main findings using ppt
• Can choose how to display this group at
  celebration day
• Ties up nicely with contents of modules
• Expands beyond cultural groups
• Avoid too much overlap
• Need to look at which students/groups do which
  parts on the day cant all do everything

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5. Celebration day

• Each group does presentation, budget and essay
• Essay individual activity, rubric given
• Budget, interactive budget file, budget
  allocation and budget report, evidence of excel
  file
• Presentation in the community
• Assessment time in Nov, but must be enough time
  to have results out
• Presentation
• Visuals, food, costumes etc
• Students responsible for everything, all
  planning, need timeline, roles specified in
  groups, draw up timeline, time management (YGPS)
• Concerns
• Contingencies on the day, support if things go
  wrong, emergency team
• Risk misappropriation of funds, monitor groups
• Logistics do students have to find their own
  tables, chairs, screens etc will need basic
  provision, students need to tell us what they
  need as part of their planning
• Appointment of assessors could use alumnis in
  years to come, rubrics
• Needs to be synchronised
• Need project cooridnator person treat as
  professional event
• Dont get anything for nothing need to pay rent
  for tables, chairs etc, dont give the idea that
  things are free
• Needs to be some links with the groups links
  across the groups, have meetings etc
• Different stalls with different types of food