A Workshop on the Development of Assessment Methods at Palestine Polytechnic University

The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning organized a workshop on” the Development of Assessment Methods. In the workshop, Engineer Elayyan Abu Gharbiyeh and Dr. Iqbal al-Shareef  gave a presentation about the courses they have developed: Principles of Accounting course in the Administrative Sciences and Computer Basics and Programming course  in the College of Information Technology and Computer Engineering. Such development included Socrative application for assessment methods within the “Transforming Assessment Practices” Project, funded by Erasmus+ and partnership with An-Najah University and Birzeit University.

Dr. Iqbal al-Shareef, engineer Elayyan abu Gharbieh and Dr. Hani Salah participated in a special training using this application at Cork University in Ireland.

The workshop was attended by teachers of these courses in the relevant colleges in order the spread this experience and activate the use of such modern technological application in assessing and evaluating relevant courses. This method is supposed to be applied in teaching and evaluating these courses in the first semester of the academic year 2018-2019 as a first experiment so as to make any necessary modifications at the end of the semester before circulating and applying it on all the sections of these courses.

 

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