Assessment of practical skills

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Assessment of practical skills
Dr Peter Klappa University of Kent Canterbury,
UK P.Klappa_at_kent.ac.uk

• Project aims
• Design practical classes so that an assessment of
  practical skills and manual competency of
  Bioscience students can be carried out
• Assess the manual skills of students
• Evaluate the impact of these practical classes on
  the learning
  outcomes

• Project outcomes
• Assessed practical classes are a powerful tool in
  the assessment of manual competence
• Careful design of the practical classes and their
  assessment according to the learning outcomes is
  crucial
• Not all practical classes are suitable for
  assessment

Further details about this project are available
from http//www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/projec
ts/tdf/klappa.htm