{"id":318,"date":"2016-03-04T11:31:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T11:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/?p=318"},"modified":"2016-03-04T11:35:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T11:35:06","slug":"developing-assessment-involving-the-sessional-clinical-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/2016\/03\/04\/developing-assessment-involving-the-sessional-clinical-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing Assessment: involving the sessional clinical teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Bateman, H., Thomason, J.M., McCracken, G., Ellis, J. (2016) Developing assessment: involving the sessional clinical teacher. The British Dental Journal, 220, 129-132. doi: 10.1038\/sj.bdj.2016.95<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article describes an approach the School of Dental Sciences have implemented to address the challenges associated with developing assessments for the undergraduate BDS curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>Developing authentic, valid and reliable assessments is resource intensive and essential, as is developing assessments at an appropriate standard for the professional examination to which they contribute.<\/p>\n<p>We believe aspects of assessment development could be enhanced by involvement of sessional clinical teachers. These teachers have a good appreciation of the required standard of achievement, together with significant experience of working with both undergraduate students and in many cases recently qualified dentists.<\/p>\n<p>Our approach has been to identify opportunities by active timetable management where contributions could be made by this group of clinical teachers to assessment writing, validation standard-setting and utilisation of assessments. We have recognised that this process must be facilitated by appropriate support and training as well as an investment in planning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Miss Heidi Bateman, School of Dental Sciences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bateman, H., Thomason, J.M., McCracken, G., Ellis, J. (2016) Developing assessment: involving the sessional clinical teacher. The British Dental Journal, 220, 129-132. doi: 10.1038\/sj.bdj.2016.95 This article describes an approach the School of Dental Sciences have implemented to address the challenges &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/2016\/03\/04\/developing-assessment-involving-the-sessional-clinical-teacher\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5896,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}