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This document outlines the objectives, process, and timeline for a seminar on assessment literacy in higher education from the perspectives of students and faculty. The seminar aims to understand testing practices in Morocco by gathering views from students and faculty. Over several weeks, students will read about assessment literacy, design a questionnaire, collect and analyze data, and write a research paper on their findings. They will also present their results and submit all materials for evaluation. The goal is to help inform upcoming reforms and identify best practices or areas for improvement in assessment.

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This document outlines the objectives, process, and timeline for a seminar on assessment literacy in higher education from the perspectives of students and faculty. The seminar aims to understand testing practices in Morocco by gathering views from students and faculty. Over several weeks, students will read about assessment literacy, design a questionnaire, collect and analyze data, and write a research paper on their findings. They will also present their results and submit all materials for evaluation. The goal is to help inform upcoming reforms and identify best practices or areas for improvement in assessment.

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BA Seminar

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Objectives and policy

Title: Assessment literacy in higher education: students’ and faculty members’


perspectives

Stating the problem


Assessment and testing are the least investigated areas in Morocco. However, tests
in Morocco are high stake and thus the student’s future depends on the results of
these tests (having access to schools, master programmes etc.). There are some
previous studies in Morocco on this area but they did not address the students’
perspectives as to whether they are complementary, or opposed thereof, to faculty
members’. This topic tries to gather students’ and faculty members’ views on how
the tests are administered to understand whether there are good practices to raise or
deficiencies to identify and suggest ways of fixing them.
Aims
This seminar will hopefully help with the coming reform of discipline provisions and
assessments. Planning for tests start before the delivery of courses, especially from
faculty members’ part. The outcomes of this seminar will orient to a model of how to
construct a test, administer it, correct it and provide remedial work as a result of
this process.

Objectives
This seminar tries to make students:
 understand the concept of assessment literacy
 utilise this concept and its related concepts in higher education in
Morocco
 identify good practices or deficiencies in assessment literacy
 address and articulate the findings clearly and attempt to suggest ways
out.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this seminar, the students will be able to:
 produce a long research paper that meets the requirements of an
empirical study
 use Excel to calculate data and produce graphs to insert in the research
paper
 be aware of and follow the conventions of academic writing
(synthesising the contents of articles, citing, referencing, respecting the
layout etc.)
 defend their findings in public and talk about their learning processes
and experiences

Process of implementation
This study consists of introducing students to the assessment practices. The students
are given some articles that explain what assessment literacy is and how to
investigate it. Then they are given articles on assessment in Morocco and
elsewhere for their review of literature.
In the empirical part of the seminar, research techniques and concepts are
discussed to make the students at home with how to design a questionnaire,
how to code it and how to analyse its outcomes.
To collect the data, students will be assigned different departments in our school
and other schools (depending on the number of students enrolled in this seminar).
Each student will collect the data from a department and then put it in an Excel
template that will be distributed in due course.
Each student will have to produce a complete research paper. Also, he or she will
have to submit raw data and the processing of this data in a digital format.
The assessment of the students’ performances in this seminar will be designed in
due course in a form of an evaluation sheet which will take into account the following
criteria: the number of articles included in the paper and how they are
synthesised, the collection of data and how it is processed, the style and
layout of the research paper, the participation in the weekly meetings
(attendance, interaction, translation, …), the recommendations provided in the
paper.
In the long run, we are working with colleagues from the FLHS in EL Jadida and after
collecting the data, we will produce articles and a model of assessing students
properly in the form of a handbook (to be translated in other languages for wider
use).
Schedule of the seminar
Week Content Assignments
1 Introductions, aims of the seminar,
outcomes, and procedures
2 Testing and assessment in Morocco, Reading an article about testing
the statement of the problem, why this in Morocco.
topic? What are the students going to
gain?
3 Assessment literacy: concepts and Reading articles on this topic and
assigning one article as model to
synthesise together.
4 Review of the literature: how to read Practice: exercises on abstracts,
articles, components of abstracts, how discussing examples of published
to synthesise articles and findings of articles.
previous research.
5 Research questions and how to Practice: write the research
investigate the variables in them. questions. Follow-up of the
review (see above)
6 Designing a questionnaire: how and Practice: study different
errors to avoid. questionnaires in different studies
on assessment literacy.
7 Agreeing on a questionnaire and Designing the questionnaire for
discussing how the questions align this study.
with the research questions.
8 Coding the questionnaire Students should collect data in
this week.
9 Working on Excel: Calculations and Students will apply this at home.
graphs.
10 Layout of the Word template to help Students will do so at home
students produce a programmable
paper.
12 Citing and referencing: the APA style Students refine their papers
13 Presentation of findings: PowerPoint Students to produce their
and how to use it, content of the presentations.
presentations.
14 Submissions for defence and Students will use a checklist
evaluation. before submissions.

Notice some of the above can be done in S5 or at the latest before the winter break.
Timeline
A timeline with deadlines will be produced in due course in agreement with other
colleagues in due course. Students who fail to meet the deadlines will have to
withdraw from the seminar.

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