1. Assessment & Feedback: Some
Digital Options
Dr Christine Davies (@christinepd)
JISC RSC Wales

2. …using technology to enhance and extend
options for formative assessment &
feedback

3. Student perspectives: NUS survey
Results of NUS Student
Surveys : Students like:
•varied forms of
“Regardless of institution, assessment
background or course, students •detailed feedback
were significantly less satisfied
about the feedback that they •timely feedback
received than their overall learning
experience”

4. ‘REAP’ principles
• JISC-funded ‘Re-
Engineering Assessment
Practices’ project,
University of Strathclyde
(see ‘Effective Assessment in a
Digital age’ :
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/pro
)

5. voting systems/ clickers/ personal response
systems/audience response systems
eg. ‘Turning Point’;
‘Quizdom’
NB: Turning Point
‘ResponseWare’ and ‘Turning
Point Anyware’
Eg. University of Strathclyde case study in
JISC publication ‘Innovation in e-learning’

6. ‘Open’ responses: text wall
• Answer by sending a text
to 07537 402 400
• Question: • Start your text ‘rscw’ with
Name 3 counties of gap before your response
Wales • Or post a message to the
text wall by going to
http://textwall.co.uk/post

7. Another ‘open’ option: Twitter
Ques:
Name 2 Welsh saints
•Answer by ‘tweeting’
using the hash-tag
#welshsaint

8. …NB: ‘Poll Everywhere’
• Response can be via
texts on mobile
phones, PC, or
Twitter
• Free for audiences
up to 40
• Online system

9. Use of quiz-type questions
Examples:
•Openmark (OU)
•Moodle quizzes
•Hot Potatoes
•Flubaroo
•QuestionMark Perception
(QMP)

10. Do you use online assignment
submission?
1. Yes, extensively
2. A little
3. no
29%
47%
24%
Yes, exten... A little no

11. Do you mark onscreen/online? (eg. Grademark)
1. Yes, and like it
2. Have tried it – don’t
like it
35% 41%
3. Haven’t tried it
24%
Yes, and like it Have tried it – d... Haven’t tried it

12. Audio Feedback
Advice:
•http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/aud
Example:
•http://www.bioscience.heacade
my.ac.uk/resources/projects/me
rry.aspx

13. Screenshots & screencasting
• For assignments
• feedback
• ‘repeat’ instruction
Eg:
•Jing
•Camstudio
•… hosting on VLE,
YouTube, Vimeo
Eg. University of Keele STAF project: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/bcap/keele.aspx
Eg. Maths at University of Nottingham: http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/screencasts/

14. Screencasts, video, audio …..and there are many
etc could be used as forms other options such as
of student assignment as giving presentations,
well as lecturer feedback posters, group
- assessing wider skill set discussions, asynchronous
forums, simulations etc

15. Encouraging & Assessing Collaboration
Eg:
Mindmeister,
Google docs
(- synchronous collaboration
options)

16. Also: sites such as Pinterest
…and Flickr, Picassa, YouTube, Vimeo, Ning
Scope for:
•collaborative/individual show-casing
•Lecturer/examiner/peer review and assessment

17. Other peer review/assessment options
• Peermark (Turnitin)
• Peerwise:
http://peerwise.cs.auckla
(eg. University of
Edinburgh)

18. simulations
Eg.
•SIMPLE project for Law:
http://
www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/progra
•Health Sciences at University
of Glamorgan: http://
hesas.glam.ac.uk/simulation/simu

19. JISC initiatives on Assessment & Feedback
• Programme: Assessment and Feedback
Programme:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/program
• Publication: Effective Assessment
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/program
• Projects: eg. ESCAPE, University of
Hertfordshire http://bit.ly/fqhZFw;
MAC, University of Westminster:
http://bit.ly/9zaUVW

20. Christine Davies:
c.p.davies@rsc-wales.ac.uk
@christinepd
01792 602511
http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/wales
support@rsc-wales.ac.uk
@rscwales