TESTA workshop.

1. @solentlearning
@tansyjtweets
Rolling out TESTA:
Options and models

2. Student led: TESTA@Greenwich
•SHIFT Keynote May 2013
•No formal training
•Two TESTA project officers
•Initial NSS approach
•0-48 programmes in 3 years
•Student-involvement
•Evidence of transformation
•Case studies replaced with
presentations

3. PhD led: Brunel University
•Keynote 2016
•One day workshop with staff
•Led by Central L&T Unit with
heads of departments
•Recruitment and selection PhDs
•One day training workshop
•PhDs do data collection and
analysis
•Three programmes

4. Academic-led: University of Nottingham
•One department, three large programmes in one year
•Directors of Assessment and Quality lead TESTA
•A few students involved
•Two days of training
•Academics from different programmes do research
•Joint review day with synthesis report

5. Consultancy: Sheffield Hallam Sports
Department
•1 x department, 7
programmes 2 years
•Led by Heads of L&T
within Department
•AEQ and audit only
•Two day long workshops
•Consultant synthesis &
one-to-ones with PLs
•Culture shift re formative
•Huge upward trajectory
on NSS

6. Periodic Review Approach: University of
Winchester
•Original TESTA leader
•2009- : 28 programmes
•Voluntary – periodic review
•Periodic review and some
NSS
•5 x per year
•One project officer (0.6fte)
•Reflected in SED
•Curriculum design model

7. Graduate Intern Model
•Six Graduate Interns for six
months
•One training workshop
•Paired on different
programmes
•10 programmes
•Guidance on data analysis by
2 x post docs
•Mix of NSS weak and
voluntary courses

8. TESTA-lite
• Meet with course teams
• Discuss A&F principles
• Rebalance formative and
summative
• Formative A&F ideas
• Options for feedback
• Team approach to marking
• Team approach to design
• More social process
• Structural changes to programme
• Use one research method only
• Use two methods only
But it tastes
nothing like the
real thing!

9. •Chat to the person next to
you: which approach
resonates with you
•Advantages,
disadvantages, advances
•Go to
www.menti.com and use
the code 95 78 10
University of Westminster
How are you
thinking of rolling it
out here?
What are the
knowns and
unknowns in your
approach?
How will you get
course team and
student buy in?
Make it
systematic?

10. •Chat to the person next to
you: which approach
resonates with you
•Advantages,
disadvantages, advances
•Go to
www.menti.com and use
the code 95 78 10
University of Westminster
How are you
thinking of rolling it
out here?
What are the
knowns and
unknowns in your
approach?
How will you get
course team and
student buy in?
Make it
systematic?