Project

COMPASS™ Directions: Leading the integration of a competency based assessment tool in speech pathology learning and teaching

Project Information

Year Funded:: 2006
Grant (ex GST):: $93,160
Project Status:: Completed
Program:: Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
Project Keywords:: Leadership in learning and teaching, Work integrated learning
Project Discipline:: Health, Medicine and Veterinary Studies

Institutions

The University of Newcastle (Lead)
Charles Sturt University
Flinders University
The University of Sydney

Project Leader

Associate Professor Alison Ferguson
The University of Newcastle
Alison [dot] Ferguson [at] newcastle [dot] edu [dot] au

Project Outcome

The purpose of this project is to build the capacity of speech pathology academic and clinical education leaders to integrate COMPASS™, a newly developed competency based assessment tool, within their learning, teaching and assessment practices in curriculum across 13 higher education programs, using assessment of work-integrated learning as a focus.

Project Methodology

This 1.5 year project takes a strategic approach using a three layer ?cross level? implementation process, working collaboratively with speech pathology academic leaders, university employed clinical educators, speech pathologists in the field who provide clinical education, and speech pathology students.

The approach is collaborative both with reference to the core research team (involving four Universities offering six of the thirteen speech pathology programs in Australia), and participatory in its involvement of a further five Universities offering the other seven speech pathology programs nationally as additional sites for the project, and the inclusion of the professional association within the Reference Group. Site visits, meetings, and teleconferencing will be used to facilitate training in this approach to assessment, and to evaluate its impact on curriculum development, teaching and learning. The project facilitates the embedding of this approach to assessment within university speech pathology programs and within the professional discipline.
COMPASS™ Project Website

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Resources

COMPASS directions: Leading the integration of a competency based assessment tool in speech pathology learning and teaching

Resource Information

Year Published:: 2008
Author/s:: Associate Professor Alison Ferguson, Associate Professor Michelle Lincoln, Associate Professor Lindy McAllister, Dr Sue McAllister
Institutions:: The University of Newcastle (Lead); Charles Sturt University; Flinders University; The University of Sydney

Description

The purpose of this project was to build the capacity of speech pathology academic and clinical education leaders to integrate COMPASS™, a newly developed competency based assessment tool, within learning, teaching and assessment practices in curriculum across 13 higher education programs, using assessment of work-integrated learning as a focus.