I am approaching my second tutorial and I find myself slightly struggling with the lit review and finding enough reading material from secondary sources. I aim to unpack this with my tutor Kwarme who has been super helpful.
i really believe in my topic now and am happy with the change. The aim of this is to challenge IRL presentations as an inclusive assessment method. My feeling is that due to AI, we, as high educators, need to move fast to combat the issue. Students are basically getting round written assessment thanks to AI. It is becoming difficult to manage and accuse a student of cheating. Without some really strong training and guidance, I do not feel us tutors are equipped.
My preference in my role is to more to more ‘live’ assessment ….or perhaps exams. Although that isn’t my topic of choice. Live assessment could basically mean live creative projects. But for the purpose of my research it is in person presentations.
I’ve been reading a piece of research by patrick Flynn called ‘Researching the CRIT’. This is really informative and suggests that the CRIT reinforce issues around hirachey of tutor/student relationships, provides barriers for gender and ethnicity, and is not an inclusive practise. I will set out to investigate this via primary research. My methods will be to start with the in person CRIT. I have set up in person CRITS for my y2 for the first time. They will be presenting their progress to me and peers. I will then be distributing feedback forms to understand their initial feelings to the CRIT.
My aim is to continue to explore in person presentations as assessment and barriers this potentially cause. I’m looking for more literature on this that can be useful and support my primary.
im also aiming to interview some learning and teaching staff at LCF to assist my research.