The document outlines some key benefits of effective assessment in a digital age according to JISC, including technologies that enhance learner autonomy and assessment quality, giving students choice over assignment formats, and using assessment to support learning. It also discusses peer assessment and the benefits of immediate feedback through interactive online tools. The document proposes an activity for students to provide anonymous feedback and messages in envelopes matching their dice roll about advantages and disadvantages of asynchronous and synchronous assessment, and goodbyes, which would then be shared by the tutor.

1. Rounding up: Assessment; Ending a
Course
Macarena Del Valle
Juan Cuevas

2. Effective assessment in a digital age…
some aspects to consider (JISC)
 Technology that increase learner autonomy, enhances the quality
of the assessment experience and improves teaching efficiency.
 There are huge benefits to be gained, for example, in giving
students choice over assignment formats.
 Educational researchers since the 1990s have increasingly argued
that assessment should be used to support learning rather than
just test and certify achievement.
 “If you really want to improve learning, get students to give one
another feedback. Giving feedback is cognitively more demanding
than receiving feedback. That way, you can accelerate learning.”
(David Nicol, Professor of Higher Education at the University of
Strathclyde)
 Technology provides ways of enabling students to monitor the
standards of their own work.

3. Effective Assessment in a Digital Age
outlines some of the key benefits (JISC)
 Better dialogue and communication that can overcome distance
and time constraints
 Immediate and learner-led assessment through interactive online
tests and tools in the hand (such as voting devices and internet
connected mobile phones)
 Authenticity through online simulations and video technologies
and risk-free rehearsal of real-world skills in professional and
vocational education
 Fast and easy processing and transferring of data
 Improved thinking and ownership through peer assessment,
collection of evidence and reflection on achievements in e-
portfolios
 Making visible skills and learning processes that were previously
difficult to measure a personal quality to feedback, even in large-
group contexts

4. An activity to round up the course
 You need one dice
 One envelop per student
 Every student rolls the dice, the result should match number of
ideas/messages put into the envelop.
Note:Every student includes advantanges and/ or disadvantages
of asynchonous or synchronous assessment ……. And a good
bye message to class.
 The tutor collects the messages and puts them on a virtual board
so everybody could share ideas.