This program provides a plan for engaging the teaching team in activities and readings that will foster discussion and critical evaluation of existing assessment processes and plan for more successful outcomes.

Focus

Module 1: Exploring understandings about assessment and moderation

What do we know about…

• assessment?
• moderation?

Are our understandings consistent…

• within the team?
• across borders?
• with policy or guidelines?

Professional development activities for a team

1. Organise a roundtable meeting (face-to-face or tele- or video-conference)
2. Distribute Survey 1 (PDF, 291KB)
3. Complete Moderation Checklist (PDF, 499KB)
4. Discuss results and summarise issues

Module 2: Mapping existing moderation practices in transnational programs

What do we currently do?

• Do we have policies or guidelines?
• Who knows about them?
• Are they followed—how do we know?
• Are policies reviewed?

1. Organise a roundtable meeting (face-to-face or tele- or video-conference)
2. Complete Survey 2 (PDF, 286KB)
3. Organise group meeting: Read Narrative 1 (PDF, 326KB), group to propose solutions
4. Read TNE Research Paper 1 (PDF, 179KB)
5. Identify issues

Module 3: Examining expectations about assessment in transnational programs

• What are our responsibilities?
• What does comparable mean? What makes programs/assessment comparable?
• What does equivalent mean? What makes programs/assessment equivalent?
• Who determines standards, and how?

1. Distribute Survey 3 (PDF, 336KB) and collect & summarise responses
2. Organise group meeting: Read Narrative 2 (PDF, 313KB) and Narrative 3 (PDF, 318KB), group to propose solutions
3. Group consider practices in the light of survey and discussion
4. Distribute TNE Research Paper 2 (PDF, 284KB)

Module 4: Building effective transnational relationships

• How do we communicate?
• How do we come to understand others’ views and positions on assessment?
• Who makes decisions?
• Trust—what does it mean?
• How do we recognise and resolve differences?

1. Distribute TNE Research Paper 3 (PDF, 168 KB) to the group
2. Ask teaching team to review documents in Cultural Section of Toolkit
3. Organise a roundtable discussion (face-to-face or tele- or video-conference
4. Read Narrative 4 (PDF, 396KB) and discuss implications for the team

Module 5: Practicing effective moderation in a transnational environment

• Planning
• Implementing
• Reviewing

1. Distribute the document: Moderation Strategies (PDF, 395KB)
2. Ask teaching team to visit the following site for a comprehensive treatment of Moderation: Curtin Moderation of Assessment site Organise a roundtable discussion (face-to-face or tele- or video-conference
3. Assist the team to and to consider the document: Moderation Strategies (PDF, 395KB) and to develop a moderation process for the unit