D4 Attainment Curriculum Design Workshop
The D4 Attainment Workshop is a 4 stage process for curriculum design. It focuses on assessment and attainment and how they can be improved and developed in the curriculum in a well-planned and supported way.
The D4 Attainment Workshop draws on principles of Appreciative Inquiry and uses Jisc’s Viewpoint resources (The Assessment and Feedback ViewPoints cards). Appreciative Inquiry is a positively focussed model for change management, designed around four stage: discover, dream, design, destiny (Kadi-Hanifi et al. 2014). Viewpoints are a set of resources, developed by a JISC Curriculum Design Project, to promote and enhance good curriculum design (Nicol 2012).
The workshop uses resources here are provided under creative commons licence Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.)
Resources:
- The D4A Mapping Template (A1 Size)
- The D4A Action Planning Template
- The D4A Workshop Evaluation Form
- The D4A Key Information Handout
References
Kadi-Hanifi, K., Dagman, O., Peters, J., Snell, E., Tutton, C., & Wright, T. (2014). Engaging students and staff with educational development through appreciative inquiry. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 51(6),
584-594. doi:10.1080/14703297.2013.796719
Nicol, D. (2012). Transformational Change in Teaching and Learning Recasting the Educational Discourse EVALUATION OF THE VIEWPOINTS PROJECT at the University of Ulster.