Transforming assessment and feedback resources

This week sees the launch of a set of new pages in the JISC Design Studio around Transforming Assessment and Feedback. These now form a hub for existing and emergent work in this area where, under a series of themes, you can explore what we currently know about enhancing assessment and feedback practice with technology, find links to resources and keep up to date with outputs from the Assessment and Feedback and other current JISC programmes. This is a dynamic set of resources that will be updated as the programme progresses.

April 26, 2012 | Filed Under Assessment and Feedback | Leave a Comment 

Seeking Feedback as well as researching the topic

Climbing frame

Throughout the life of the Assessment & Feedback programme the JISC support & synthesis team will be looking at baseline summaries, interim reports, blogs, websites and a host of other outputs from the projects and summarising them for the wider sector.

As a starting point for this synthesis activity we have developed an outline ‘framework’ that identifies some of the questions we are hoping to answer through the programme. We have decided to publish this outline in order that people with an interest in the subject can feed back to us on the draft questions. We know that the projects involved in the programme will have a particular interest in this but we hope also to gain perspectives from the wider community in order to ensure that we are tackling the key issues and addressing the questions people most want answered.

We also welcome your thoughts on what types of evidence you would find most compelling and what kind of outputs/resources (and in what formats) you would like to see from this programme.

The draft synthesis framework is available from the Design Studio here and you can use the comment facility on the page to send us your feedback (you will need to be logged in to do this). We will continue to review the approach throughout the life of the programme but we would welcome comments on this first draft by the end of January 2012.

Image CC BY-SA treehouse1977

January 18, 2012 | Filed Under Assessment and Feedback | Leave a Comment 

Looking forward to events in 2012

Image of hollySeveral JISC e-Learning programmes started in late 2011, including the Assessment & Feedback and Digital Literacies programmes. As we’ve already flagged-up, building on the success of the Digital Visitors and Residents online session, we’ve got several free events coming up which may be of interest:

Outcomes of ALLE JISC Digital Literacies project
Lyn Greaves, Thames Valley University
(14:00 GMT, Friday 20th January 2012)

Making Assessment Count project
Peter Chatterton and Gunther Saunders, University of Westminster
(13:00 GMT, Friday 3rd February 2012)

e-Portfolios to support assessment and feedback
Emma Purnell and Geoff Rebbeck, University of Wolverhampton
(13:00 GMT, Friday 17th February 2012)

Digital Enhance Patchwork Text Assessment (DePTA) project
Caroline Macangelo, CDEPP
(13:00 FMT, Friday 24th February 2012)

Keep an eye out for further details of these events – or better yet, subscribe for free updates using RSS or email!

December 21, 2011 | Filed Under Assessment and Feedback, Developing Digital Literacies | 1 Comment 

Assessment and Feedback – new JISC programme underway

The JISC Assessment and Feedback programme was launched in October and projects are now well underway. The programme is focused on supporting large-scale changes in assessment and feedback practice, supported by technology, with the aim of enhancing the learning and teaching process and delivering efficiencies and quality improvements. There are three programme strands with projects of different lengths running for the next 3 years:

Strand A is focused around institutional change where 8 project will redesign assessment and feedback practices, making best use of technology to deliver significant change at programme, school or institutional level.
(See Rowin Young’s blog about the strand).

Evidence and Evaluation is the focus of strand B. These 8 projects will evaluate assessment and feedback related innovations which are already underway in a faculty or institution, and report on lessons for the sector.
Rowin’s blog

The four projects in strand C will package a technology innovation in assessment and feedback for re-use (with associated processes and practice), and support its transfer to two or more named external institutions.
Rowin’s blog

You can keep up with the programme through this blog (don’t forget to subscribe to the feeds). All the project blogs are aggregated in Netvibes .

You can also keep up to date with the programme through Twitter #jiscassess and we are also running some open webinars – see the JISC e-Learning webinar calendar for details.

December 7, 2011 | Filed Under Assessment and Feedback | Leave a Comment