Designing Assessment to Promote Engagement Among First Year Social Work Students

Christine Morley; Phillip Ablett

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Designing Assessment to Promote Engagement Among First Year Social Work Students

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Designing Assessment to Promote Engagement Among First Year Social Work Students

Christine Morley and Phillip Ablett

e-Journal of Business Education & Scholarship of Teaching, Vol.11(2), pp.1-14

2017

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Abstract

Curriculum and Pedagogy

Social Work

engagement

retention

ontological learning

assessment

This paper reports on research that evaluates the potential of assessment to promote students' engagement with their first year social work education; particularly their sense of connection with other students in ways that may contribute to student persistence in the initial stages of their studies. It presents the findings obtained from a qualitative study that explored students' experiences of undertaking a group presentation/performance assessment task in an introductory critical social work course at a regional Australian university. Overall, the results from a survey with course participants suggest that a group presentation/performance assessment fostered collaboration and cooperation among first-year students in a way that enhanced their engagement with each other, course material, and successful learning in this course. Students' responses regarding the assessment task strongly indicate that their engagement was not simply instrumental or formal, but rather ontological, in that the group presentation/performance engages the students' being as reflexive agents of change in the learning and assessment processes.

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Title: Designing Assessment to Promote Engagement Among First Year Social Work Students
Authors: Christine Morley (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Phillip Ablett (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Publication details: e-Journal of Business Education & Scholarship of Teaching, Vol.11(2), pp.1-14
Publisher: Australian Business Education Research Association
Date published: 2017
ISSN: 1835-9132
Organisation Unit: School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450334202621
Output Type: Journal article

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