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标题：Skills and Criterion Referenced Assessment: Turning “LWB236 Real Property A Law” into a subject for the real world
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作者：Kelley Burton
期刊名称：Journal of South Pacific Law
印刷版ISSN：1684-5307
出版年度：2007
卷号：11
期号：01
页码：56-63
出版社：University of the South Pacific
摘要：In 2006, the LWB236 Real Property A Law teaching team in the School of Law at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is replacing a research essay assessment task with a more authentic assessment task that will better equip students for the real world. The new assessment task is a drafting exercise and memorandum of advice that will embed and assess more lawyering and generic skills. In particular, it will develop legal research skills, legal analysis skills, drafting skills, written communication skills and document management skills. It will also give the students the opportunity to develop autonomy and self-confidence. In addition to the new assessment task, the teaching team is also implementing a new assessment regime, that is, criterion referenced assessment in accordance with the new QUT Assessment Policy. The outcome of this will be increased validity, reliability and transparency of the assessment task. The criterion referenced assessment sheet was designed to indicate the alignment between the new assessment task and the learning outcomes of LWB236 Real Property A. The design was informed by a criterion referenced assessment sheet used in a first year undergraduate core law subject, LWB143 Legal Research and Writing, and the one used in LWB237 Real Property B, to recognise that law students incrementally develop their skills as they progress through the law degree. The successful implementation of criterion referenced assessment will depend on the measures taken to ensure that there is a shared understanding of the criteria and performance standards between the markers and students. This conference paper will discuss these plans for turning LWB236 Real Property A into a subject for the real world in 2006.