Will Covid-19 finally catalyse the way we exploit digital options in assessment and feedback?

The typical child will learn to listen first, then talk, then read, then write. In life, most of us tend to use these abilities proportionately in roughly the same order: listen most, speak next most, read next most frequently and write the least. Yet in educational assessment and feedback, and… Continue reading

Letting students’ voices be heard: building effective learning relationships and increasing outcomes on the 2-year accelerated BA (Hons) in Primary Education

Two-year degrees, often referred to as ‘accelerated degrees’, are intensive degree programmes that offer increased flexibility in Higher Education (HE) with the traditional three years of study condensed into a two-year period. Accelerated degrees are becoming a more appealing option for many students seeking HE study (Baty, 2017; Cabral and… Continue reading

‘Keepin’ it real and Sharin’ good practice’ – Insights from the Sociology and Combined Honours Degrees

Using that Sociological Imagination in assessin’ and feedin’ back A prevalent feature in our programme is the ‘Sociological Imagination’ – a term coined by C. Wright Mills (1959:6) emphasising ‘the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society’. This is reflected in our research and teaching,  as… Continue reading

Dr Edd Pitt – Students’ utilisation of feedback: a cyclical model

This video can be seen alongside others from the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Open Lecture series and annual conferences on the EDU Vimeo channel. In this presentation, Dr Pitt proposes a conceptual cyclical assessment and feedback model which attempts to further understand the problematic nature of feedback within higher education. Whilst… Continue reading

Dr Gwyneth Hughes: Is competition good for learning? Exploring ipsative assessment as an alternative.

This video can be seen alongside others from the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Open Lecture series and annual conferences on the EDU Vimeo channel. Ipsative assessment is a powerful and under-used approach that provokes a radical rethink of the purposes and methods of assessment. Ipsative assessment means making comparisons with a… Continue reading

Tansy Jessop: TESTA and a programme-level view of assessment and feedback

This is the video of a keynote presentation at Shift 2013, 3rd July 2013 Dr Tansy Jessop is a Senior Fellow in Learning and Teaching at the University of Winchester. She leads the TESTA National Teaching Fellowship Project which was funded by the UK’s Higher Education Academy, and is the project… Continue reading

Teaching and Learning Workshops 2013-14

We have recently published our schedule of workshops in teaching and learning for this academic year. You will notice that they map to a number of the UKPSF Dimensions of Practice and will therefore support preparation for HEA GOLD Fellowships. Any of the workshops can be customised for programme or… Continue reading

Phil Race on mending assessment

The video can be seen alongside others from the LTA Open Lecture series and annual conferences on the EDU Vimeo channel. Don’t forget the remaining two lectures for 2011-12: 22 February 2012 – Dr Anna Jones (Glasgow Caledonian University) – Graduate Attributes 21 March 2012 – Dr James Atherton (Retired Academic,… Continue reading

40 years of technology-enhanced learning: Malcolm Ryan reflects

The video can be seen alongside others from the LTA Open Lecture series and annual conferences on the EDU Vimeo channel. We hope to have a video recording from Phil Race’s lecture on assessment and feedback available soon… and don’t forget the remaining two lectures for 2011-12: 22 February 2012… Continue reading