Practical skills evaluation with digital technologies in teacher education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Practical skills evaluation with digital technologies in teacher education

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Open and distance learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

According to recent studies (Digital Education Plan 2021-2027 in EU), the assessment system was the most challenging aspect to revert in a remote teaching and learning situation in the current pandemic crisis. Those assessment methods involving students’ practical skills which require a high level of interaction with others or with a work-based learning context are especially challenging. The current project will seek to develop INNOVATIVE ASSESSMENT PRACTICES IN A DIGITAL ERA in the area of Teacher Education, aiming to SUPPORT EDUCATORS AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERS to improve their teaching and learning skills and BRIDGING DIGITAL SKILLS GAPS of both students and academics in Higher Education.

The project AIMS to:
1)Develop e-assessment resources able to secure an authentic, sustainable and effective students’ assessment of their work-based skills;
2)Build the university teachers capacity to use e-assessment in an effective and coherent way, along with enhancing their digital competences;
3)Equip universities with mechanisms to change the assessment culture for good, organically incorporating digital solution to facilitate students learning.

The project is based on five pillars of intervention, creating a holistic and organic process around the following university dimensions: 1)PEOPLE: Students are the central agent in HE so the development of their professional skills represents our main outcome and priority; 2)ORGANISATION: the project will consider the context of intervention as critical as in any change and innovation process; 3)INTERACTION: Aspects such ethics and integrity will be placed in the centre of interaction designed; 4)RESOURCES: The project will contribute to creating valid and adapted resources for teachers and university leaders; 5)DIGITAL GAP: The assessment must be inclusive for all students and our project will design resources and interventions which will contribute to reducing the teachers and students’ digital gaps.

The project expects to produce FOUR INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS:
IO1: D-EVA BANK. Resources for e-assessment of students’ professional skills: study cases of real-life situations in educational centres (school placements, internship centres, university subjects as Practicum); e-assessment rubrics with their guidelines for using learning analytics, viva-voce feedback, virtual reality tools and gamification e-assessment.
IO2: D-EVA SITE. Open Digital platform with resources developed in IO1, providing open, free and technological solutions for assessing practical skills. The IO2 will provide prototypes of virtual environments to simulate real job situations using Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technology.
IO3: D-EVA TRAINING. A professional development plan for university teachers in teaching digital competence and specifically e-assessment with innovative digital tools. IO3 is to provide: Open Education Resources, guidelines and methodology for implementation, including guidelines for autonomous implementation in Teacher Education schools; online peer-coaching support plan.
IO4: D-EVA PLAN. We will put in place a holistic organisational plan targeting the HE organisations and all actors. It will provide Guidelines for teachers and academic leaders to foster e-assessment practices in both f2f and online contexts, including resistances and facilitators to its implementation, examples of good practices and concrete actions for implementation, Codes of ethical criteria for e-assessment implementation and Online plan for wellbeing, cyber-resilience and digital security for teachers.

The project involves a METHODOLOGICAL STRATEGY to maximise collaboration and co-design to reduce the transfer gap, such as a system of co-leading and mixed teams (D-Eva groups) which will act as champions in the implementation of e-assessment practices. A human-centred design, design thinking and co-creation processes and the development of the training programmes will effectively employ the Research Learning Network (RLN) and online peer-mentoring approaches will be used.
The TARGET GROUPThe direct beneficiaries are teachers and academic leaders in the field of Teacher Education, especially those involved in delivering teaching in work-related subjects such as practical workshops, school placements, internships, seminars. A total of 20 teachers in each will benefit from the project outputs (a total of 180) and more than 5000 students in Teacher education.
The project benefits from the expertise in assessment and digital tools of CONSORTIUM OF 4 PARTNERS: 3 universities and one teachers´ training organisation from Spain (UAB), Iceland, (ICI Island) Romania (UVT) and Nederlands (Digital Society School).

The project includes a comprehensive dissemination plan by which all these outputs will be open access and available to the general public in the project’s website and resources platform.

Project Website

https://d-eva.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 201353 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• STICHTING HOGESCHOOL VAN AMSTERDAM
• UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST DIN TIMISOARA
• InterCultural Ísland