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Assessment and Feedback Tony Nixon

Assessment and Feedback Tony Nixon. Why?. Need to grade students Provides motivation This is critical in distance teaching! Route to learning for student for tutors and course writers. Where to start. Learning Outcomes. Course materials. Assessment. Learning outcomes.

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Assessment and Feedback Tony Nixon

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  1. Assessment and Feedback Tony Nixon

  2. Why? • Need to grade students • Provides motivation • This is critical in distance teaching! • Route to learning • for student • for tutors and course writers

  3. Where to start Learning Outcomes Course materials Assessment

  4. Learning outcomes • At the heart of all courses • Expression of what the student will learn • Embedded in learning materials • Assessment should test the students' knowledge, skills • We have to make expectations clear to students • Working in isolation makes it difficult for students to identify norms

  5. Types of assessment • Two basic types • Summative and Formative • All assessment is formative to some extent! • Summative assessment contributes to final grade

  6. Formative assessment • Enables student to measure understanding without having to worry about influence on grades • It is possible to ask questions the response to which could be difficult to evaluate • Students are not always motivated to complete formative assessment

  7. Formative assessment • Can take many forms • In text questions • Quizzes • Interactive questionnaires • Computer marked assignments • Tutor marked assignments • Peer marked assignments • Exams

  8. Marking • Dual purpose • Grade • Feedback – critical in distance learning • Feedback can be time consuming (example) • The design of marking and feedback systems often limit the scalability of distance learning systems • Have to think – not only of grading and feedback but also consistency

  9. What forms will your assessment take? • How will it be distributed over the module? • Remember: provides motivation as well helping to give pace to study • Proportions: • summative : formative • automatic marking : tutor marked • synchronous : asynchronous (ie exam or project)

  10. NUC Guidelines • “assessment tasks will occupy a minimum of 10% of study time” • “a minimum of one marked assignment for each 40 hours of study” • “marking feedback” - “return a target maximum of 3 weeks”

  11. Conditions • 1. Assessment should encourage a strong and consistent level of engagement in learning activities • 2. Assessment should encourage student effort that is at an appropriate level and intensity. • 3. Feedback should be provided in time and in sufficient detail to affect learning. • 4. Feedback should be insightful and appropriate in its focus. • 5. Feedback should prompt an active response from the student

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