[Bf-education] Blender certification... FYI: indicative assessment times.

[Blasgund Brian]

Hi all,

Just thought I'd add my two cents worth, I have been lecturing with blender in Western Australia since 2008 assessing student work through the various national training packages from Cert III's to Diploma's. To assess under industry context even simulated we run a Studio so when it comes to assessment time I look at their working portfolio (exercises within the study period) and they are always set a project or projects to complete. Of course in my area I assess to the units within the training packages using their rules of assessing to Elements and performance criteria the context for the work is using the simulated studio which I adapt for students to fit within the project production pipelines being run in the Studio, the reason I am mentioning this is I try to simulate the real world work environment as much as possible one to prepare the student for after college  and two so they can produce some good work for their show reels that they would have a large amount of material generated that would show the projects. Assessment time varies based upon what units I am assessing and how much work I need to view to prove competence within the units on average I would say a over the whole time you could say block out two hours per student for assessment. In the college structure work is passed in over time as units and tasks are completed and a usual viewing of the portfolio and project items at the end to clean up all requirements...
Regards
Brian Blasgund
Lecturer IT/Multimedia
Midland Campus

0438 938 364
Brian.Blasgund at polytechnic.wa.edu.au
www.polytechnic.wa.edu.au

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From: bf-education-bounces at blender.org [bf-education-bounces at blender.org] on behalf of leung, ann [SD] [ann.leung at polyu.edu.hk]
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 1:19 PM
To: Blender Educators and Trainers
Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Blender certification... FYI: indicative assessment times.

Hi Andrew,

Am a lecturer/instructor in Hong Kong teaching animation and design subjects. In Hong Kong, showreel is king or for instructor, it would be a teaching portfolio on top of showreel or students reels.

In our school, all animation and design subjects would have projects than exam. to assess students achievement towards end of each semester and employers here also prefer hiring a good animator/designers than merely look at the academic results

Hope my info. helps

Cheers,
ann


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From: bf-education-bounces at blender.org [mailto:bf-education-bounces at blender.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Buttery & 
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 11:05 AM
To: bf-education at blender.org
Subject: [Bf-education] Blender certification... FYI: indicative assessment times.

Hi everyone,

FYI: I did a bit of asking around with some educators in Melbourne and Hong
Kong as to how long they would take to assess the competency of a student as
after the conversation a month or so ago I was curious as to how long it
really takes...

One said at least an hour and half for a written assessment (e.g. exam),
less if it was an oral assessment (i.e. a Q&A session). She thought that
multiple choice questions (MCQ) were a poor way to assess unless they were
very well written.

The other said that assessing a portfolio of work on average takes two to
two and a half hours even though he is very experienced and assesses quite a
few a year. I'm guessing that is over a hundred a year as he assessed my
Certificate IV Training and Assessment evidence folder along with 20 other
students. Mine was just one course of many he teaches during the year.

So if we want a certification to have creditability, it needs, at least, to
have:
- a qualified individual doing the instructional design and
assessment;
- an assessment approach that demonstrates student competency, not
just the ability to answer MCQ,
- clear student authentication; and
- clear education records which can be audited.

This could easily add up to a full-time job and therefore you would expect
that there would be some fees involved...

- andrew


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