Reflecting on Assessment (ENTELS)

Assessment and ENTELS

What I chose:

I chose task 1 and task 3 for this activity so I created a Rubric for Back Massage and a Kahoot Quiz on Skin Diseases and Disorders in Kahoot, both for my Level 6 Beauty/ Massage therapy students.

What I did:

I used quickrubric.com to create a Rubric based on the marking criteria as pre determined by our external examining body, ITEC: My Rubric for Back Massage Practical Exam. Our examining body give very strict, prescriptive guidelines and instructions as to how our students are assessed. Therefore, when we are doing formative assessments with the groups, we try to be as creative as possible with the guidelines given to us! 

This is an example of one section of the Rubric

I also created a Kahoot which can be used with any Beauty students in the college as they all study Skin Diseases and Disorders! Skin Diseases and Disorders Kahoot

What I have learned:

To reflect on the items created above, I will use Gibbs' Reflective Cycle:

I created both of the above with the intention of helping the students in their final exams. 

Kahoot:

I chose to make a Kahoot that would be used by all 4 Beauty classes in the college, including students that I have for support classes. Beauty classes have MCQ's as the summative assessment to determine their knowledge of the theoretical knowledge around their different subjects. This Kahoot had 37 questions with images to help the students with visual aspects of recognising skin diseases and disorders. Although this was not what is required in the end of year exams, it is something which is crucial to their professional development as a therapist. When we did the Kahoot in the 2nd year class they really loved it! Overall it went really well and I was surprised at how competitive they were as they were doing it in teams and they were really egging each other on! It was problematic at times as we used teams because only 5 students in the room had free internet access on their phones nad for 1 team the connection kept dropping, which frustrated them somewhat. The quizzes and the visual aids really engaged them with the material as this is one aspect that all beauty students really struggle with, and it is an element of every module they cove. They wanted to do more quizzes so I had made more on different topics and we used them for revision and I also showed them how to make their own and how to log in to do other people's quizzes as part of their overall study plan for end of term.

Rubric for Practical Back Massage:

I made the rubric strictly following the ITEC marking scheme and just put the criteria into a more conversational style. As a final exercise before the girls final exams (yes, it was very last minute!) they used the rubric to assess themselves and to compare it to the results that I gave them in their overall ITEC marking sheet. I felt it worked really well. We had used Rubrics from the Bridge21 project a number of times throughout the year for Project Based Learning assignments we were doing so really they settled into it. I felt that some students found it difficult to assess themselves accurately, despite their being comfortable with it as a process. Some studnets who are quite hard on themselves anyway, tend to assess themselves below their actual result, whereas some of the students are oblivious to the elements that they just haven't yet got to grips with. These were the same students who struggled in this manner with the Bridge21 rubrics. Although I found it really useful, I know that they still wanted the number and not the overall grade. A number of students wanted to know "but how many marks did I get out of 100?".  However, overall it is a really useful and worthwhile method of assessment and comparing results with peers and/ or the teacher could really strengthen its overall value in the classroom. Helping students to negotiate rubrics is something that I need to spend time on in the upcoming year with new students and the rubric could be very quickly and easily adapted for each body area in practical- but it is something I need to give more guidance and support with at the outset.