PROGRAMME

Revisiting Assessment

Keynote speakers:

I Margaret Price: What makes good feedback

II Paul Haywood: Could do better: assessing the assessors

Presentations

Track A:

A1: Nicky Spawls, Clare O'Donoghue - Learning About Assessment Literacy: A Case Study from the Assessment Literacy Project

A2: Simon Roberts - Can assessment literacy be enhanced and does it lead to improved student performance? A case study of year one Business and Management students at Middlesex University Business School

A3: Dr Venetia Brown, Dr Kevin Corbett, Icram Serroukh - The use of MCQs within Team Based Learning: choosing the right approach to foster student learning

A4: Jo Killingley - Assessment literacy in student midwives

A5: Dr Maureen Spencer, Jacqueline Finn - 'I came here to be taught the law by you …’ Designing assessment so students want to find out for themselves.

Track B:

B1: Angus Macdonald, Helen Hingley-Jones - Readiness for Direct Practice’: using video as a tool to assess social work students

B2: Dr Simon Best and John Parkinson - Open Badges: Capturing and rewarding hidden learning

B3: Jas Ahmad, Luiza Dantas - Using My Learning in the assessment cycle:
how hard can it be? Challenges and benefits of using VLEs for assessment

B4: Alex Chapman - Drop-in session: hands-on session following on from track C1

B5: Kirsteen MacDonald, Paul Smith - Demo Session: e-Marking and e-Feedback

Track C

C1: Alex Chapman, Luiza Dantas - Digital Stories - Everyone has a story to tell… ‘Assessing students using Digital Stories and bringing out their creativity'.

C2:  Julia K. Gleich - Developing quality feedback and assessment literacy in dance

C3: Jon Mortimer - Assessing creativity

Workshops

Dr. Carole L Davis, Sandip K Gill and Kristína Repová - Changing perceptions of ourselves: how Graduate Academic Assistants are altering the learning experience of Education Studies students through assessment literacy

Kate Brown, Sheila Cunningham, Jodie Ward, Kate Wilkinson and Jo Wilson - Appartunity or Appain? 

Plenary/ Panel Session