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Implementing criterion-referenced assessment (CRA).
Dr Ruth Elder
Lecturer | School of Nursing | Faculty of Health
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Ruth Elder is a lecturer within the School of Nursing where she specializes in teaching Mental Health Nursing. Ruth has been working with criterion-referenced assessment for the last five years.
Her interest in this form of assessment grew out of the problem of trying to achieve consistency across multiple markers in large undergraduate units. She was also had a broader concern with engaging students in the subject matter and helping them assume more control over their own learning by understanding the process whereby academic judgements are made.
She has experimented with a variety of assessment methods designed to promote deep learning and with a variety of criteria sheets (matrices). Ruth is a member of the Faculty of Health’s CritRef Strategy which is implementing and evaluating the integration of CRA in Faculty of Health units. |
This project aimed to:
- improve the alignment between the objectives, assessment methods and marking criteria
- produce useful criteria sheets for a variety of units in nursing and across the health faculty.
The project was implemented using the principles of action research by:
- consulting and negotiating criteria and levels of performance with teaching staff, an assessment specialist and students
- maintaining a reflective log of the processes of designing and revising unit objectives, assessment methods and criterion-referenced matrices
- developing and presenting exemplars of assessment items
- providing students with opportunities to use and discuss the CRA matrices.
The project also focussed on assisting others in the School and across the Faculty of Health to implement CRA.
Download the project presentation.
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