Managing Teams and Team Assessment
Seminar Room 6.30, Level 6, FBE Building, 111 Barry Street, Parkville
"Managing Teams and Team Assessment"
This workshop will provide you with practical strategies to effectively design team projects and manage student teams. This includes an understanding of the basic principles of group work and group assessment. You will be provided with a range of group project tools such as skills inventories, team contracts, self and peer evaluation, and group assessment forms. This workshop would suit those who have subject coordination responsibilities and are involved with designing team-based assessments. In this workshop, participants are expected to reflect on their subject guides and/or group assessment tasks.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
- Gain an understanding of the basic principles of group work and group assessment;
- Identify the pain points related to assessing group work and managing student teams; and
- Identify clear strategies and tools that can be applied to effectively manage your student teams and their work.
- Apply best-practice team-based assessment to your subject.
Facilitators
Dr. Angelito Calma is a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the Williams Centre for Learning Advancement. He designs and delivers various professional development programs to support business academics at various stages of their career. He is also responsible for managing the Faculty’s quality assurance initiatives in relation to AACSB accreditation. Angelito has more than 20 years of experience teaching management subjects, particularly business analysis, decision science and quantitative methods in business.
Dr. Andy Wear is a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the Williams Centre for Learning Advancement. He has worked in a number of Australian universities both as an academic and leading large-scale teaching and learning transformation projects, with a particular focus on digital and hybrid learning environments. He specialises in learning experience design, assessment design, digital pedagogies, philosophy of education, as well as academic leadership and development. Andy is an experienced facilitator of workshops and training supporting these capabilities.