Tag: assessment
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 -
Details the Creative Futures open unit which explores futures studies from radically different perspectives: how designers and leaders create visions for the future and how these visions help shape more ...
June 21, 2021 -
We are delighted to invite you to the annual BILT conference! This year's BILT conference will explore how different connections have been established and nurtured, both in-person and online, and ...
June 10, 2021 -
This case study shares an approach to 'authentic' learning using an example from a unit I direct for first-year Innovation students at the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (the Centre). ...
June 9, 2021 -
TESTA (transforming the experience of students through assessment) aims to improve the quality of student learning through addressing programme-level assessment. ...
March 24, 2021 -
I didn’t finish Uni quite how I thought I would (to put it mildly). Ignoring, for now, the slightly terrifying world I’ll be graduating into (which is something I’m getting ...
July 16, 2020 -
This might not seem like a time of opportunity. Everything is cancelled or postponed, and it seems like our worlds are shrinking (both metaphorically, and physically - something I’m acutely ...
March 19, 2020 -
Last week I attended an ‘Emergency First Aid at Work’ training course. I had minor concerns about whether I would be able to use the defibrillator correctly (nailed it) and ...
January 24, 2020 -
The following post was written by Dr. Isabel Hopwood-Stephens, a TESTA Researcher. As one of the TESTA researchers attached to BILT, I’m going to be involved in collecting and analysing ...
September 27, 2019 -
Yesterday, after an excruciating three-week wait, it was the Education Services Charity Bake Off Final. I had made it through to the final after winning my heat (cheese and rosemary ...
August 14, 2019 -
The following piece was written by Helen Heath, a BILT Fellow, Reader in Physics and (soon to be!) University Education Director (Quality). Why do we think that students being strategic ...
July 15, 2019 -
Rumour had it that both the teaching and assessment on the third-year English Literature Celebrity Cultures module was pushing boundaries to introduce students to new ways of thinking. Intrigued, I ...
July 4, 2019 -
Surely a 2:1 by any other name would be as sweet? Numerical grading of assessments is something that has bothered me for a long time. I’ve had many conversations with ...
June 7, 2019 -
The following post was written by Amy Palmer, BILT Digital Resources Officer. Since the launch of BILT in 2017, the implementation of programme-level assessment across the University has been a ...
May 1, 2019 -
Check out this snippet of conversation our Student Fellow Zoe Backhouse recorded with a fellow fourth year Liberal Arts student on the topic of assessment. Want to know why Europe’s ...
April 17, 2019 -
Zoe Backhouse is a BILT Student Fellow and fourth-year Liberal Arts student. Zine [definition]: some sort of publication, usually mass-produced by photocopying (in some cases scanned, put on the net, ...
March 11, 2019 -
The following post was written by Amy Palmer, BILT Digital Resources Officer. Studies have shown there is a strong correlation between the amount of writing a learner completes and their ...
January 9, 2019 -
The following post was written by Emilie Poletto-Lawson, an Educational Developer and BILT Fellow. I am a BILT fellow based in Academic Staff Development where I work as an Educational ...
December 7, 2018 -
We asked our Student Fellows to write us a short blog about their background and what they are doing as part of their BILT role. The following blog is from ...
December 7, 2018 -
The following post was written by Helen Heath, a reader in Physics and BILT Fellow. I am a reader in the School of Physics at Bristol and currently 1st year ...
November 22, 2018 -
Development of a guide to creating video for assessments. Utilisation of the guide to support students in creating and using video as a novel assessment method. The team outline how ...
October 12, 2018 -
A project that utilised problem based activity to develop student engagement and understanding of statistics for planning psychological experiments. ...
October 12, 2018 -
We asked our Fellows to write us a short blog about their background and what they are doing as part of their BILT Fellowship. The following blog is from Zoe ...
September 14, 2018 -