If you would like an opportunity to talk through assessment and feedback on your unit or programme, come along to Tuesday’s assessment drop-in sessions with Dr Shelley Thompson, the CEL Theme Leader for assessment and feedback. These are informal sessions designed to support you with your questions about assessment and feedback (formative and summative), whether… Read more » about Assessment and feedback drop-ins next week
Assessment and Feedback
Co-creating Assessment with Students: ‘Backward Design’, Agency and Assessment Clarity
by Dr Richard Wallis and Dr Ashley Woodfall It’s that time of year when, as teaching staff, we’re working to bring student understanding of unit assessment to the fore. There are many things that can cloud that understanding. Sometimes we might feel that student disengagement is at play, and however many times we… Read more » about Co-creating Assessment with Students: ‘Backward Design’, Agency and Assessment Clarity
MA Education Practice Pedagogic courses
Welcome to Autumn and new courses for you! CEL are delighted to announce our new MA Education Practice with a variety of entry and exit points. We are offering four short courses/accredited units for BU staff across the academic year. Colleagues can develop their skills and understanding in areas important to the success of BU2018…. Read more » about MA Education Practice Pedagogic courses
Teaching and Learning Fellowship helps disseminate best practice in the classroom
During 2016-2017 academic year, I was fortunate enough to be awarded a BU Teaching and Learning Fellowship via the Centre for Excellence in Learning for the work I was doing around social and mobile journalism on my first-year unit, Features and Online 1 on BA Multi-Media Journalism. In that class, I worked with our fabulous… Read more » about Teaching and Learning Fellowship helps disseminate best practice in the classroom
CELebrate 2017: Exploring and utilising students’ perspectives on feedback: a mixed method, longitudinal approach
At the recently held CELebrate 2017 conference, Dr. Peter Hills, Kara Peterson, Simon Croker and Dr. Rachel Manning gave a presentation about psychology undergraduate students’ perspectives on assessment feedback. Participants came from all three undergraduate years and spanned a range of academic profiles. The research was longitudinal, from January 2013 to April 2014. A mixed method approach was… Read more » about CELebrate 2017: Exploring and utilising students’ perspectives on feedback: a mixed method, longitudinal approach
“Am I ready to receive feedback?”
Receiving feedback is an emotive process for students. Guiding them to consider their emotional readiness to assimilate comments may improve the feedback/ feedforward process. To add to research on delivering effective feedback, The Developing Engagement with Feedback Toolkit considered how students’ RECEIVE feedback. The research confirmed a common lament that students do not engage with… Read more » about “Am I ready to receive feedback?”
Special Edition on Transforming Assessment in Higher Education *Call for Expressions of Interest*
Higher Education Pedagogies (HEP) www.tandfonline.com/rhep The aim of this issue is to bring together cutting edge examples of effective efforts at sustainable and manageable assessment change at programme, school/faculty/college and/or institutional-level with regards to assessment and feedback. We are particularly interested on work around assessment literacy; the use of technology to support assessment practices; and… Read more » about Special Edition on Transforming Assessment in Higher Education *Call for Expressions of Interest*
Assessment and Feedback – colleagues please can you assist Naomis’ SRHE project? 10 mins only!
Apologies for cross-posting, but please can any colleagues interested in Assessment and Feedback complete this short survey? ====== Assessment and feedback are one of the most important tasks we undertake as academics, yet also one of the most time-consuming. Through a project funded by the Society for Research into Higher Education, I am aiming to… Read more » about Assessment and Feedback – colleagues please can you assist Naomis’ SRHE project? 10 mins only!
Guides to Using the new Generic Assessment Criteria
A set of guides for academic staff and for students, including a video, have been developed to make using the rubrics developed from the new Generic Assessment Criteria easy to use and to understand. They are available in the TEL toolkit and show how to load the rubric into Turnitin ready for marking, if it… Read more » about Guides to Using the new Generic Assessment Criteria
Resources from a tweetchat on assessment and feedback
Phil Race, a well known name in the scholarship of teaching and learning has made resources available from a tweetchat last week which you might find interesting and useful. Do book in for the workshop on November 2nd 1-3 on Creative assessment and feedback when we will have a guest, Professor Dai Hounsell, co-facilitating the… Read more » about Resources from a tweetchat on assessment and feedback
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