Assessment literacy tool

Students are presented with a sample of student work, and asked to provide a mark and feedback for each criterion set by the subject coordinator. Students are subsequently presented with expert (subject coordinator) marks and feedback for comparison.

The assessment literacy tool can be used to help familiarise students with assessment criteria for their assessment tasks or the criteria to be used in peer review activities. The image below shows one example of a use case for the assessment literacy tool.

1. Students are presented with criteria provided by the teacher that they will use to assess an essay.
2. The student provides a grade for the criterion based on the provided criteria description.
3. The student justifies the grade awarded.
4. After the student submits their grade and justification, they are shown the teacher awarded grade and justification.

Request the installation of the assessment literacy tool into your subject

Whether you are using the tool for the very first time in your subject, or if you are using it again in a subsequent semester, you will need to request the installation of the tool into your LMS subject.

Please submit a Learning Environments support request:

• Request details: Learning Management System (LMS)
• Enquiry type: General
• Subject code: The full subject code of your LMS subject
• Further details: State that you require the installation of the Assessment Literacy tool in your subject
• Click Submit when done.

The support team will let you know when the tool has been installed in your subject.

Initialise the assessment literacy tool dashboard

Multiple tasks can be built from the same assessment literacy tool dashboard. To start building tasks, the tool needs to be initialised. This can be done via LMS Assignments or Modules.  If you wish to use the assessment literacy tool for a hurdle requirement or assessment purposes, initialise it as an Assignment. Otherwise, you can initialise it via Modules for self-assessment purposes.  If the Display grade as assignment setting is set to Complete/incomplete, a green tick in the grade book will indicate which students have completed all the tasks in that assignment, and allows staff to bulk email students who have not yet completed it.

Assignments

To initialise the assessment literacy tool via assignments:

1. Navigate to Assignments.
2. Click +Assignment.
3. Using the Submission Type dropdown menu, select External Tool.
4. Click Find.
5. Select Assessment Literacy Tool V2 and click Select.
6. Click Save or Save & Publish.

You will be taken to the assessment literacy tool dashboard, continue to create the assessment literacy task below for instructions on how to create a new task.

You can now add this assignment to your modules if you require your students to access it from there.

Modules

To initialise the assessment literacy tool via modules:

1. Navigate to Modules.
2. Click the + button on the module where you want to add the task.
3. Using the Add dropdown menu, select External Tool.
4. Select Assessment Literacy Tool V2 and click Add Item.
5. Click on the Assessment Literacy Tool V2 link in the module.

You will be taken to the assessment literacy tool dashboard, continue to create the assessment literacy task below for instructions on how to create a new task.

Create the assessment literacy task

Once you have chosen where to initialise  your task (assignments or modules) and initialised the tool, to add the document, criteria and feedback to the task:

1. Click +Add assessment task on the assessment literacy task dashboard.
2. In the Enter task title text box, type the name of the task.
3. Type the instructions for the task into the Enter task description text box.
4. Click Browse and follow the prompts to locate and select the file containing the sample of student work. The file can be a Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or PDF document.
5. Click Create task.
6. Click OK.

Create the marking guide

The next set of menu options allows you to set or upload a marking guide.

To create a new marking guide, use the Editor tab and:

1. Select the grading type you wish to use:
   1. Weighted marking guide: Specify the weight each criterion contributes to the final mark.
   2. Points based marking guide: Provide point values for each criterion. Selecting Points will give you the option to display criterion grades as percentages or points.
2. Provide overall feedback. This is your overall feedback on the sample of student work. This feedback will be shown to students once they have finished reviewing the sample.
3. Set the default maximum points per criterion.
4. Click +Add Section to initialise the marking guide editor and follow the prompts to set up the marking scheme. Sections can be used to group criteria. For example, you might have a “writing style” section that comprises flow, grammar and punctuation criteria.
5. Set:
   1. Section no. This can be letters or numbers and contain up to five characters.
   2. Section title. This is a description of the section.
Click Add section followed by OK.

6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for as many sections as needed.
7. For each Section, set the criteria.
   1. Click + Add Criterion.
   2. Give the criterion a title.
   3. Provide a description of the criterion. This is seen by the student and helps to provide an accurate rating for the criterion. e.g. this could be achievement level descriptors from a rubric.
   4. In the Mark box, enter the teacher awarded mark. Students will only see this value after they have submitted their own mark and feedback.
   5. Set the maximum possible points for the criterion.
   6. If you chose to use a weighted marking guide, insert the fraction that the criterion contributes to the final grade.
   7. Provide teacher feedback on the student sample. Students will only see this feedback after they have submitted their own mark and feedback.
   8. Click Add criterion.
   9. Click OK.
   10. Repeat steps a to g as many times as needed (i.e. once for each criterion per Section).