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Outputs > Effectively Evaluating Placements - Workshop materials 1&2

Two complementary half-day workshops were held at the University of Bath on 27th February 2012 (19 attendees) and 5th March 2012 (11 attendees). The workshops focussed on placement learning for members of staff at the University of Bath with responsibility for or an interest in student placements and placement learning.

The workshops covered evaluation of the placement situation itself, in terms of its potential or otherwise to promote learning and not the assessment of the student's placement performance.

workshop

The first workshop provided opportunities to think about and discuss placement learning, including its promoters and inhibitors. Handouts of real data from students were used in the workshop activities to really understand how to practically categorise student feedback.

Enhanced understanding of placement learning helps define those properties that constitute high quality placements, those with high potential to facilitate student learning and development. A newly developed document Guidelines for the Evaluation of Placement Learning Opportunities was introduced.

The second workshop built on the first and provided opportunities for considering placement evaluation in more depth. Frameworks and Models for in depth analysis of placement situations were introduced and staff were invited to trial these tools using feedback from their own students.

The workshops fit in with the current Placements Business Review Process being undertaken at the University.

Materials from the workshops can be found here:

Workshop agendas

Presentation 1

Presentation 2

Guidelines for the Evaluation of Placement Learning Opportunities

Understanding learning

Lessons from student feedback

Frameworks for Analytical Evaluation of Work Placements