Transcript Marie Stowell presentation

Efficiency and Effectiveness in
Assessment: Challenging Times
Student Assessment and Classification
Working Group (SACWG)
Marie Stowell
Context: Assessment is key
‘Students can escape
bad teaching;
they can’t escape bad
assessment’
David Boud (1995)
Enhancing learning
through self assessment.
Student Assessment and Classification Working Group (SACWG)
Challenging Times
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New fees and regulatory context
Student number controls and access targets
KIS and students as consumers
Alternative providers and partnerships:
competition and collaboration
• Flexible and new pedagogies and
technologies
• Risk-based quality assurance
Student Assessment and Classification Working Group (SACWG)
Assessment is a ‘hot topic’
• Academic standards (QAA, 2009; HEFCE, 2009;
IUSSC, 2009; Brown, 2011)
• Credit, flexibility and funding (QAA, HEFCE, CVU)
• External examiners and institutional review
(UUK, 2011, QAA, 2011)
• Good practice (eg Price et al. 2010; Nicol/QAA, 2009;
Gibbs, 2010; NUS, 2010)
• Performance indicators and public information
(HEFCE, 2009 and 2010)
• Student satisfaction (Williams and Kane, 2008;
HEFCE, 2011)
Student Assessment and Classification Working Group (SACWG)
SACWG research
• Institutional regulations,
processes and procedures
• Degree classification
• Reassessment
• Enigmatic variations
– Passing and failing
– Progression
– Achievement
• See Yorke et al. 2002,
2004 and 2008
Student Assessment and Classification Working Group (SACWG)
Efficiency in assessment
• Student success, retention and
completion
• Costs
• Over-assessment?
• Pass first time
• Take up of reassessment
• Moderation and external examining
Student Assessment and Classification Working Group (SACWG)
Effectiveness of assessment
• Student learning,
differentiation and
satisfaction
• Assessment strategies:
course versus module
• Assessment for learning:
formative assessment and
feedback
• Quality assurance
Student Assessment and Classification Working Group (SACWG)
Some current challenges:
efficiency
• Regulatory frameworks
• Academic year: timing of
assessment + reassessment
• Managing re-assessment
• Re-thinking reassessment?
• On-line submission
• Use of Plagiarism software
• Quality assurance of
assessment
Student Assessment and Classification Working Group (SACWG)
Some current challenges:
effectiveness
• Course assessment strategies
• Inclusive assessment
• Variety, choice versus competence
and practice
• Assessment criteria and
assignment briefs
• Re-thinking reassessment?
• Professionalising assessment
practice
• Student perceptions
Student Assessment and Classification Working Group (SACWG)