Assessment & Feedback

Through the Student Academic Experience Strategy, the College aims to enable  all students to achieve their full potential through supporting successful progression, raising levels of attainment, enhancing student attributes, and preparing for work and/or further study.

Students will be co-creators of their own learning, challenged with real life problems and solutions. 

Alongside industry specialist practitioners and experts, students will develop the skills to help them attain, achieve, and progress to a positive destination. 

Their experience will re-shape their future and create pathways to new careers.   

The Learning and Teaching Academy promotes the five targets of assessment laid out in the Jisc report on the Future of Assessment:

The future of assessment: five principles, five targets for 2025.

• Authentic - Moving away from conventional essays and exams, assessments are increasingly designed to prepare students for what they do next, drawing on skills and technologies that they will use in their careers.

• Accessible - The accessibility-first principle not only ensures that all learners have equal opportunities to excel, but designing for accessibility also improves the learning experience for all.

• Appropriately automated - Providing accurate and effective assignment feedback is an essential part of learning. Using suitable software and automation can reduce workload and focus educators’ work on detailed qualitative feedback. 

• Continuous - Improvements in data collection and educational technology enable educators to provide more formative assessment and avoid too much emphasis on a limited number of high-stakes assessment.

• Secure - Allowing learners to be confident that they are being measured fairly alongside other learners means developing authoring detection and biometric authentication adopted for identification and remote proctoring.