Workshop by Dr Tim Linsey, Kingston University, at the "Improving Assessment and Feedback Practices in a Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning Environment: Theory and Practice" Event, 19th May 2010 at Kingston University. Part of the "Higher Education Academy : Evidence Based Practice Seminar Series 2010.

1. Higher Education Academy : Evidence Based Practice Seminar Series 2010
Improving Assessment and Feedback Practices in a Technology Enhanced
Learning and Teaching Environment
Practical Issues and Scenarios Workshop
A number of current issues and examples of practice have been identified below. The aim of this
group based workshop is to elaborate on, amend and add to this list for the purpose of sharing
practice and ideas. Our suggestion is that each group does this one from of 3 perspectives:
a. Institutional,
b. Academic Development,
c. Academic.
1. Wider issues
Assessment in step with evolving pedagogies
Authentic, complex, challenging tasks and the assessment of these tasks
Institutional issues of space, timetabling, staff loading models
Assessment tasks as learning tasks
Providing effective feedback that students can use – Feedforward
Involvement of students in the assessment process
Feedback and assessment with students working remotely from the institution
Our students
2. Practical Issues
Beyond the pockets to systemisation
First steps – building on existing systems – the 1.5+
Maintaining reliability and confidence in technologies
Using environments beyond the control of the institution
Multitude of platforms – mobile and personal technologies
Assessing group work
Large classes
Staff time
Support beyond disseminating good practice
Tim Linsey - Kingston University May 2010

2. Higher Education Academy : Evidence Based Practice Seminar Series 2010
3. A Few Examples of Practice / technologies
Immersive / Virtual worlds / simulation e.g. see Second Life (http://vorticism.wordpress.com/ )
G4 Project (http://www.elu.sgul.ac.uk/g4/ )
Bayeaux tapestry (http://panograph.free.fr/BayeuxTapestry.html) An example of its use in
assessment by Geoffrey Crisp. ‘Historic record or Norman Propaganda’. See also:
Crisp, G. May 2010 Why should we change assessment because of Web 2.0?
http://transformingassessment.com/events_past.php and
http://www.transformingassessment.com/index.php
Audio feedback e.g. Sounds Good Project
(http://web.mac.com/simonft/Sounds_Good/Welcome.html)
Video feedback e.g. Asset Project (http://www.reading.ac.uk/asset/)
Peer review e.g. Spark Plus (http://spark.uts.edu.au/), PRAZE
(http://disweb.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/jonmp/praze/index.html), Calibrated Peer Review
(http://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu/), Turnitin PeerMark (http://www.turnitin.com/static/products.html).
Group assessment e.g. WebPA Project (http://webpaproject.lboro.ac.uk/),
Web 2.0 Authoring Tools in Higher Education Learning and Teaching: New Directions for Assessment
and Academic Integrity Project (http://web2assessment.blogspot.com/) :
Gray, K., Waycott, J., Clerehan, R., Hamilton, M., Richardson, M., Sheard, J., & Thompson, C. 2010
Web 2.0 authoring tools in higher education learning and teaching: New directions for assessment
and academic integrity: A framework for field-testing and refining good practice guidelines in pilot
projects at Australian universities during Semester One 2010. Retrieved 14/5/10 from
http://web2assessmentroundtable.pbworks.com/f/ALTC-ASW2A-Guidelines-draft-Feb2010.pdf
Tim Linsey - Kingston University May 2010