Category: Assessment and Feedback
In 2019, I became the unit director in Economic Principles, a compulsory unit for first year undergraduate students in Accounting and Finance. Even though students are highly-skilled and the entry ...
July 26, 2023 -
Implementing the Patchwork Text Many of our programmes in the university use written assignments for summative assessments, and students are required to demonstrate reflective learning and critical engagement within their ...
February 6, 2023 -
Artificial Intelligence is now so accessible that, with some clever steps, it can produce good quality essays that rarely get caught by plagiarism checks. The higher education sector is abuzz ...
January 11, 2023 -
We held a one day student hackathon with 16 students from across a range of faculties and courses focusing on assessment. Seven themes emerged. ...
December 7, 2022 -
Published 19/10/22 Authors: Hannah Grist, Mark Allinson, Sam Jones, and Georgia Terry. Introduction Feedback is a vital part of the university environment, and feedback from our students on their teaching, ...
October 18, 2022 -
Have you ever heard an educator say, “I will be spending the next three weeks marking and I cannot wait!”? I have been working in university education for over 10 ...
October 17, 2022 -
As we look forward to our next student hackathon we have taken the opportunity to pause and reflect the outcomes of July's event. During the hackathon, students reflected on their ...
October 5, 2022 -
There are a number of ways of making assessment of large groups manageable for staff whilst still supporting effective learning for students including: Reduce the amount of summative assessment Increase ...
September 7, 2021 -
Traditionally the core role of assessment is to measure students’ learning for the purposes of quality assurance. ‘What and how students learn depends to a major extent on how they ...
September 7, 2021 -
This blog builds on BILT’s previous podcast on Preparing students for assessment and the work of my co-Student Fellows, Rhona and Sama, on decolonisation of the curriculum. Last week I ...
July 7, 2021 -