Assessment

The Learning and Teaching Academy is aligned with the five targets of assessment laid out in the Jisc report 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.

Assessment Tools

Turnitin

Turnitin is so much more than plagiarism checking. Use Feedback Studio to speed up grading, Quickmarks to store frequently used comments, and learn how to create powerful Grading Forms and Rubrics – grading matrices that can improve and standardise qualitative and numeric grading. Give feedback in textual or audio format.