Stephanie Sodero (SALC) challenges students to distil a key point from their research essays into a creative project designed for a target audience.
Category: Assessment Innovation
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.
Developing and Sharing Innovative and Responsive Assessment
In this example Katherine Smith (SoSS) explains how she developed open debate as the method of assessment and feedback for her social anthropology module to respond to and celebrate diversity in the student cohort.
Groupwork to produce a collaborative radio programme/podcast
Melanie Giles (SALC) discusses how she set up small online groups to deliver assessed ‘podcast’ style pieces of cutting-edge research while developing student collaborative and employability experiences.
Summative Assessment: Research Posters through Padlet
In this case study, Alison Zimmer (AMBS) explains how she utilised Padlet for a summative assessment.
Digital timelines and online exhibitions – assessing the aesthetics and politics of Italian Fascism
In this case study, Francesca Billiani (SALC) discusses using digital timelines in her course Aesthetics and Politics of Italian Fascism.