Transcript GCU Showcase: Introducing Re

Re-engineering Assessment Practices
in Scottish Higher Education [REAP]
Gillian Roberts
REAP project co-ordinator in CBS
Scottish Funding Council (SFC)
- a 2 year Project
•£6m for HE/FE – competitive bidding
•E-learning transformational projects
•Embedding and substitution
•New approaches to teaching/ learning
•Measurable benefits to institution/sector
•Partnerships with other HEIs/FEIs
Rationale for the REAP
proposal
•Assessment – key driver of student learning
•Assessment is a major cost in HE: economies
of scale limited
•Assessment influences a wide range of
organisational, pedagogical and business
processes in HE
Partners and roles
•Strathclyde University: across 5 faculties with large
1st year classes (Mechanical Engineering, Marketing,
Pharmacy, Psychology, Primary Education)
•Glasgow Caledonian Business School (one faculty:
Finance, Management, Marketing, HR, )
•Glasgow University (developing electronic voting
technologies)
•Allows synergies and comparisons across disciplines
/faculty/institution.
Aims of REAP Project
•Re-engineer assessment practices in 3 HE
institutions using supportive technologies.
•Enhanced approaches - self, peer, tutor, to
enhance motivation & learner self-regulation
•Integrate technologies – online tests,
simulations, e-voting, e-portfolios, VLEs, admin
systems and online-offline interactions
•Focus is on large classes - esp.1st year
•Improve learning quality & show efficiencies
•Embed new processes in institution
REAP Projects and
participants in CBS in 2005-06
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Managerial Finance – Ken Waddell & Stuart McChlery
Marketing Fundamentals – Sheena MacArthur
Economics, Markets & Enterprise – Douglas Chalmers & Alan
Radford
Understanding Management – Kate Lennon & Lynn Black
Organisations & their Environment – Andy Sharp & douglas
Chalmers
Consumer Buyer Behaviour – Anne Warren
Perspectives on People at Work – Pauline Munro
Business Research Methods – Dorothy Macfarlane
Strategic Management – Alec Wersun & Susan Ogden
* Presentations at the GCU Learning and Teaching Showcase event on 25.5.06 are in bold
Key research underpinning
The REAP project
Twigg C (2005) Course redesign improves
learning and reduces cost
http://www.highereducation.org/reports/pa_core/core.pdf
•Nicol, D. & Milligan, C. (2006), Rethinking
technology-supported assessment in relation to
the seven principles of good feedback practice.
In C. Bryan and K. Clegg, Innovations in
Assessment, Routledge.
•Gibbs & Simpson (2003) FAST project: Evaluation
Tools for investigating the impact of assessment
on student learning