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Transforming assessment pilot scheme

Transforming assessment pilot scheme. Final core forum – 11 March 2014. House keeping. Fire procedure Refreshments Catering Wifi. Facilitators, supporters. Professor Sue Bloxham Academic associate Professor Sally Brown Academic associates Andrew Fleming Academic Development Officer

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Transforming assessment pilot scheme

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  1. Transforming assessment pilot scheme Final core forum – 11 March 2014

  2. House keeping • Fire procedure • Refreshments • Catering • Wifi

  3. Facilitators, supporters • Professor Sue Bloxham • Academic associate • Professor Sally Brown • Academic associates • Andrew Fleming • Academic Development Officer • Dr Erica Morris • Academic Lead • Professor Liz McDowell • Academic Associate • Professor Chris Rust • Academic Associate • Professor Brenda Smith • Academic Associate

  4. Final core forum: aims • To promote exchange, collaboration and problem solving • To evaluate, review and reflect on progress made • To share expertise, resources and information across participating institutions

  5. Final core forum: aims • To consider and focus on the agreed outputs of the scheme • worked examples and recommendations about how to apply the tenets into practice • a set of original, creative and practical resources for those in learning and teaching roles • a final report, describing how institutional assessment policy and practice has changed

  6. Further development • A Marked Improvement • Rationale • Annotated resources • Enhanced tool • Case studies • Links to practical resources • Framework: assessment review • Stimulus questions • Inclusive assessment • Academic integrity issues • Reference and linkages to complementary tools and guidance • Assessment of students and the recognition of prior learning(QAA Quality Code, 2013) • Programme assessment strategies (PASS) • TESTA methodology • JISC guides on technology enhanced assessment • Building on the work of the pilot scheme • Recommendations for improving the tool

  7. Programme

  8. Tenets into action: part one Facilitators: Margaret Price and Chris Rust

  9. Tenets into action: part one • Tenet one: Assessment for learning • Birkbeck, University of London • Keele University • University of Roehampton • Tenet three: Recognise that assessment lacks precision • (Tenet six: Ensuring professional judgements are reliable) • University of Liverpool How have you applied one of the tenets into practice? Providing recommendations for others on how they can use this learning in their own context

  10. Tenets into action: part two • Tenet four: Constructing standards in communities • Buckinghamshire New University • Tenet four: Constructing standards in communities • (Tenet six: Ensuring professional judgements are reliable) • Teesside University • Tenet five: Integrating assessment literacy into course design • University of Edinburgh • University of Southampton

  11. Evaluation, review and reflection Facilitators: Erica Morris and Brenda Smith

  12. Final report • Overview • Context, rationale and aims for your participation in the pilot scheme • Priorities for development • Including the tenet(s) which were the focus of your activity, as identified by your completion of the Assessment Review Tool • Progress to date • Progress made against your chosen tenet(s), including actions taken and evidence of impact on assessment strategy, policy and/or practice

  13. Final report • Reflections • Your experience of participating in the pilot scheme, including any lessons learned that may be of benefit to others • Next steps • Outline plans for continuing and future work after the end of the pilot scheme Use of a template The final reports will be used for internal purposes, but could inform the development of case studies for the HEA website

  14. Review and reflection Drawing on your developed action plans, review and consider: • your progress • lessons learned • future activity In relation to these areas, what would be helpful for others to know for when they work on an initiative on transforming institutional assessment policy and practice? Discussion in institutional groups; 25 minutes

  15. Creative and practical resources café Facilitators: Sue Bloxham and Liz McDowell

  16. Creative and practical resources During this session: critique, review and consider a variety of practical resources In your institutional groups discuss and plan the kinds of resources you might produce, and look at how they would complement and map to A Marked Improvement

  17. Concluding comments • Pilot scheme outputs • Worked examples and recommendations about how to apply the tenets into practice • A set of original, creative and practical resources to translate the tool into practice • A final report • A financial statement • By 30 May 2014

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