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Developing and Assessing Students' Research Skills in the Curriculum

The Division of Linguistics and Psychology cordially invites all staff to an interactive seminar and workshop on the topic of 'Developing and Assessing Students' Research Skills in the Curriculum', to be given by Dr John Willison (University of Adelaide) and Dr Judi Homewood (Macquarie University).  The seminar will be held on Monday 8 September at C5C, Room 498, from 10am-2.30pm.

Please RSVP to Homewood@psy.mq.edu.au for catering purposes.

The schedule will be as follows:

10am-10.30am: Coffee/tea and biscuits

10.30am-12pm: Interactive Seminar

12pm-1pm: Lunch

1pm-2.30pm: Workshop

Academics in fifteen disciplines and seven universities, including Psychology at Macquarie, have been utilising the Research Skill Development (RSD) framework as a conceptual model to facilitate and assess student research skills in undergraduate and masters curriculum. This has resulted in more explicit and incremental approaches to the development of skills associated with research in each discipline. The RSD framework was developed at the University of Adelaide and has attracted expressions of interest from the USA, Canada, the UK and South Africa.

This interactive seminar will introduce the RSD framework and provide a structure for participants to discuss and debate potential benefits of using the framework, as well as possible difficulties.

This seminar will suit academic staff who are interested in ways of practically embedding research skill development and assessment in the curriculum of small, medium or large courses.  Access to the website www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/rsd prior to the seminar is encouraged, as the RSD framework and downloadable assessment examples may be found there.

An Australian Teaching and Learning Council grant supports the provision of RSD handbooks, as well as lunch and drinks.

In the workshop, academics will apply the Research Skill Development framework to an area of interest to them. This application may involve, for example, generating RSD-inspired marking criteria for a specific assessment or a developing a plan of action informed by the RSD.

Dr John Willison is from the Centre for Learning and Professional Development at the University of Adelaide, where he coordinates the Graduate Certificate in Higher Education. He leads an Australian Learning and Teaching Council-funded project entitled 'Making research skill development explicit in coursework: Five universities' adaptation of a model to numerous disciplines'.

Dr Judi Homewood is from the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University and is the Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning in the Division of Linguistics and Psychology.  She used the RSD framework and associated tools to quantify students understanding of research in a 300-level psychology unit in semester 1, 2008

This message was sent by Dr Judi Homewood (Division of Linguistics & Psychology), and approved by Professor Judyth Sachs, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Provost).

Contact: Judi Homewood

Phone: Ext 6215

Publish Date: 26 Aug 2008