PEDA4044-1

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

	Master in education (120 ECTS)	3 crédits

Lecturer

Marianne Poumay

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Evaluating learning is an essential component of the teaching and training expertise. It's closely linked to the way training is globally designed.
Nowadays, deep changes generate a transformation of both thinking and practices in evaluation, in particular in the sector of adult training. For instance, the development of competence-based evaluation arises numerous questions around evaluation.
This course will be an opportunity to discuss questions connected to this evolution. It will also ask the students to analyse learning assessment settings and propose improvements.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The course will contribute to the development of the first competence of the grid used in the Master in Educational Sciences at FPLSE, slightly modified (by the lecturer) as follows :
"To analyse education and training situations :

referring to conceptual frameworks from the interdisciplinary field of the educational sciences (models, existing litterature) ;
taking into account the contexts and different actors of those situations (age, life and training contexts, functionning of the systems, meaning for each of the actors) ;
distinguishing between description, interpretation and prescription."

Concretely, by the end of the course, the students will have :

Analyzed an evaluation situation in its training context, using proposed tools;
Identified and differentiated the assessed learning outcomes (especially knowledge, skills, professional attitudes and competence);
Designed and written down improvements to a contextualized evaluation, documenting and justifying the rationale of those improvements.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

None

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course consists in a series of face-to-face sessions where resources and framework for analysis are presented, complemented with some testimonies from trainers or researchers who present an evaluation practice and offer it to the collective analysis.
In parallel, in groups, the students identify a training situation where the question of the evaluation is raised. Therefore, they contact a teacher or a trainer interested to question his/her situation of evaluation.
The groups design, formalize and propose evaluation/assessment methods that would improve the chosen situation and justify their choices using the resources provided during the course as well as personnal ones.
The groups also provide a feedback of their work to the trainer(s) they collaborated with, and discuss their proposals with him/her. The groups finally evaluate the implemented approach and write a group report. They also produce a mini-video in which they underline some pointing elements they've brought to the evaluation situation through their analysis.
The course is mainly face-to-face, but the group work is organized following the groups' preferences.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Essentially face-to-face, supported by an online environment.

Assessment methods and criteria

Participation in the training activities (seminars as well as group work) is mandatory in order to access evaluation for this course.
The groups written reports will be graded through a group note (weighting 40% of the report grade) and an individual note (weighting 60%).
On that same 40%/60% share, the oral defense will be weighted 20% of the final grade of each student.
For each group, the grades will be available only if they have posted their mini-video on the online courses' space. That video might see some students gain an additional bonus point if they have deeply engaged in it.

Work placement(s)