In a beautiful town surrounded by lush green countryside, golf courses, and tranquil seas, I recently spent a couple of days that left me both intellectually enriched and personally inspired. Hosted by St. Andrews University, the 7th edition of the Enhancing Student...
Category: Assessment and Feedback
Cementing a community of learning, herbs, bag painting, spoon throwing and a silent disco
Claire McGourlay (SoSS) shares her reflections from Connections in Legal Education Fest 2024
Advance HE: Teaching and Learning Conference 2024, Nottingham Trent University, 2 July
Mark Baker, Department of History, shares his thoughts from the Advance HE: Teaching and Learning Conference 2024
Autograder for programming assignments via Gradescope
Ekaterina Kazak (SoSS) highlights the use of automated programming assessments with Gradescope to address the challenges of manual marking and provide timely feedback to economics students.
Body Art, Apps and Parties: Creative Knowledge Translation
Stephanie Sodero (SALC) challenges students to distil a key point from their research essays into a creative project designed for a target audience.
Assessment As Learning: Collaborative Peer Assessment
MIE lecturer and unit lead Kelly Burgoyne (SEED) went from peer assessment sceptic to champion as she developed and supported a peer assessment as learning approach on her 3rd year UG unit.
Why is their work better than mine? Using a showcase event to harness the power of conversation, comparative judgement, and self-generated feedback
Creating meaningful summative feedback can be time consuming, with little guarantee of student engagement. However, allowing students to display their finished work to their peers, in an event aimed to encourage dialogue and comparative judgement, can become the catalyst for the creation of, and engagement with, high-quality self-generated feedback. Case study by Alison Zimmer (AMBS)
Engaging students with innovative group assessment creating academic posters
Cornelia Lawson & Philip Shapira (AMBS) asked students to prepare academic posters for a group assignment.
The benefits of regular formative Blackboard quizzes
Panos Sarantopoulos (AMBS) shares how using Blackboard quizzes regularly, alongside forums and drop-in sessions, enhances learning.
Developing Student assessment literacy though Peer assessment
Anonymous peer to peer review, even without students commenting on each other’s work is an effective way of developing skills such as writing style and structure in essay writing. Jenni Rose (AMBS) shares how students can also gain confidence in themselves from this process and become connected independent learners.