1) The document discusses challenges in assessment and feedback practices and how technology can help address these challenges. It describes several university projects that developed principles and tools to improve assessment and feedback. 2) Key principles for effective assessment and feedback discussed include clarifying expectations, facilitating self-assessment and reflection, providing high-quality and actionable feedback, and using feedback to improve teaching. 3) Technologies described that can help implement these principles and address challenges include electronic assessment management systems, peer review tools, and analytics tools to study feedback.

1. 12/03/2014 The changing face of assessment and
feedback
How technology can make a difference

2. Overview
»Assessment and feedback challenges
»Influencing change through principles
»Feedback and feed forward
»Assessment and employability
»Electronic assessment management
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The full story
Programme Report: http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5450/

3. Context
»JiscAssessment and Feedback
Programme (2011 – 2014)
»20 projects and over 30 institutions
involved across the UK
» 3 strands focused on institutional
change, evaluation of technologies
and technology transfer
»Directly involved 2,200 staff and
6,000 students
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www.jisc.ac.uk/assessmentandfeedback
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4. Activity:A challenging landscape…..
What areas are uppermost in your mind as
challenges relating to assessment and feedback
in your context?
»5 mins to discuss in pairs/tables
»Write up your top 3 on post-its
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5. A challenging landscape
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»highly devolved & inconsistent
»traditional practices dominate
»lack of developmental focus
»relevance to world of work
»learner in passive role
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6. TheVision: a principled approach
»Need to articulate the underpinning
vision
»Principles are a good way to
articulate and operationalise this
›Provide a synthesis of the research
›Action oriented
›Evaluation device
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Resources
Why principles? http://www.reap.ac.uk/TheoryPractice/Principles.aspx
Overview of principles:
http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/page/40343419/Assessment-and-
feedback-principles
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7. REAP principles
»Clarify what good performance is (goals, criteria, standards)
»Facilitate the development of reflection and self-assessment in
learning
»Deliver high quality feedback to students: that enables them to
self-correct
»Encourage peer and student-teacher dialogue around learning
»Encourage positive motivational beliefs & self esteem through
assessment
»Provide opportunities to act on feedback
»Provide information to teachers that can be used to help shape
their teaching (making learning visible)
Nicol and Macfarlane-Dick (2006)
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Good assessment and feedback should:

8. Curriculum design
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Implementing principles
University of Ulster ‘Viewpoints’ Cards
http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/file/70476581/Viewpoints%20A%26F%20Cards.pdf
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9. Spend 10 minutes looking through the cards, and
then identify and agree as a table your top 3
principles for assessment and feedback in order of
importance.
If you have time, explore the activities on the back
of the cards.
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Viewpoints activity

10. Promoting employability
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»Emphasis on summative assessment
does not reflect working life
»Skills in giving feedback and using
feedback from multiple sources
essential
»Sometimes understanding the brief is
the hard part….
»Students can not always articulate the
skills they have
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Webmaster Birmingham City University
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11. Dimensions of work-integrated assessment
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University of ExeterWork Integrated Assessment Model
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University of Exeter student evaluation of learning from applying model
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13. Peer review
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»Most significant shift
towards assessment
for learning
»Students need to be
convinced of benefits
»Open source tools e.g.
Peerwise
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14. Aligning technology with principles
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University of Exeter ‘TechTrumps’
http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/page/63225947/Technology%20Top%20Trumps
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15. Longitudinal development: feeding foward
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»Feed forward
»Ipsative approaches
»Technology needed to
support information
sharing
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16. Curriculum Design: scheduling
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University of Dundee
course redesign using
University of Herfordshire
assessment timelines tool
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17. Analysing feedback
»Feedback is a ‘black box’
»Programme teams don’t discuss
feedback
»Useful analytical tools available
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18. What kind of feedback do you give?
P1 - Praise. Motivating but if used indiscriminately can appear
insincere.
P2 - Recognising Progress (ipsative feedback). Can be motivating
and informs students about their learning. Lack of progress serves
as an early warning.
C - Critique. How work falls short of expectations or criteria; can be
discouraging if not accompanied by information on how to
improve.
A - Advice. Help students take future action to improve.
Q - Clarification requests. Asking learners to think more deeply
about their work and generate actions themselves.
O - Unclassified statements. Neutral comments, for example that
describe the piece of work but do not make any judgement.
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(adapted from IOE feedback profile)
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19. Electronic Assessment Management
»Academics less keen than students
or administrators
»Technology is coming of age
»Clear evidence of workload savings
»Pre-requisite for analytics
»Electronic marking isn’t that bad!!!
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20. Activity:
Returning to your principles & challenges, what
approaches highlighted today might help implement the
principles & address the challenges?
.
What are the remaining challenges that still need
solutions ?
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21. Any questions ?
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22. http://bit.ly/jiscdsaf
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23. Briefings
»Changing assessment and feedback practice with the
help of technology
»Electronic Assessment Management
»Enhancing student employability through
technology supported assessment and feedback
»Feedback and feed forward: using technology to
support learner longitudinal development
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