Broadcast journalism Research, film and produce a TV or radio broadcast report Affects students with mobility impairments, visual impairments, hearing impairments A student with a mobility impairment, or who is a wheelchair user, could have difficulties in filming and equipment. Student with a visual impairment will not be able to see pictures in order to film and edit them. Students who are hearing impaired may experience issues with interviewing people Computing Games Technology written exam with many graphics Blind/visually impaired students unable to see graphics on exam paper and their specialist software is unable to read and interpret it Where a blind person’s guide/helper will read exam papers to them, it may also be necessary to take into account their understanding of the subject Horticulture Recall, oral pronunciation and written spelling of Latin names of plants Students with specific learning difficulties, mental health difficulties, visual or hearing impairment may all struggle with aspects of this assessment Students with specific learning difficulties may be unable to spell the names, even though they know them. Students with different types of mental health impairment may be unable to recall Latin names (memory issues) or pronounce them (anxiety etc). Students with visual impairments cannot see the complicated spelling to learn them and students with hearing problems could not hear the words to phonetically chunk the names in order to learn them or pronounce them properly Law 3 hour, unseen exam with 4 questions to answer Students with dyslexia, some students with mental health problems, students with physical/dexterity issues, students with visual impairments and students with some medical conditions may struggle with this assessment Dyslexic students may not be able to process, organize and write material quickly, and so an unseen exam can inhibit their performance. People with various mental health issues (e.g. anxiety, ADHD) may also have difficulties. Visually impaired students may need a person to read the paper and write answers for them, or to utilise software, both of which take much longer. Students with physical/dexterity issues may be disadvantaged, because additional time awarded can mean writing for significantly extended periods. Students with some medical conditions may also need to take frequent breaks or medication
Appendix 3: Exemplars and case studies of alternative and inclusive assessments Discipline Current method Alternative methods? Same method, alternative media? Comments Art & Design Written essay At Levels 1 & 2 could be replaced by a visual essay, for example using PowerPoint (see case studies section) Art & Design/ Broadcast Journalism year, 10,000 word traditional dissertation A&D: Visual Product, whereby the student designs and creates an artefact and writes piece on the process BJ: An extended project in the journalistic medium being studied Structured essays to form a dissertation (can apply to any subject area but has been used as an alternative in Computing at NTU) Arts & Humanities Written essay A&H: Individual assessments are negotiated for Spanish modules; usually a type of written or oral assessment is agreed. If long written work must be assessed, because of subject benchmarks or ILOs, then a choice of genres might be considered This is an example of a practice which we are aware of going on at NTU, However, it has not been developed as a case study
Biomedical Science Assessment on site as part of trips to various outdoor locations, with challenging environments Dissertation on theory/research Assessment using virtual simulations of the environment Or, possible, a choice of locations for each environment type Virtual alternatives can be designed and used as a preset alternative to a field trip. This option is currently is used in as an alternative to field trips that are in locations inaccessible to some students. However, it could also be designed as a alternative for all students Biomedical Science Laboratory assessments Virtual simulations Laboratory assessments could be undertaken by the student using a helper Computing examinations with essay papers using graphics as coursework with text explaining concepts as questions as opposed to graphics Text can be read by screen reader software, graphics cannot easily be read Law Timed exams testing legal argument Mooting, i.e. oral debates of legal argument (with or without a time constraint) Social Sciences Written essay SS: In one third year module students are offered three different written options This is an example of a practice which we are aware of going on at NTU, However, it has not been developed as a case study