Why Attend?

If you’re looking to breathe new life into your assessment design and craft purposeful feedback while enhancing student engagement and success, this is the workshop for you. Have you ever wondered if your students even read your feedback or if your assessments truly enhance the student experience and prepare them up for the world of work.

Assessment should be more than a box-ticking exercise, it’s an opportunity to transform and work with how students learn, grow, and encourage curiosity. Yet, assessment and feedback persist as key challenges across the sector, stubbornly impacting NSS scores and the student experience.

This interactive and collaborative workshop will inspire you to connect with the basics of effective assessment. While also discovering fresh ways to create meaningful, authentic assessments that not only meet institutional goals but also deeply benefit your students. Together, we’ll explore the interplay of assessment ‘for, of, and as’ learning, equipping you with practical strategies to create impactful feedback, inclusive practices, and assessments that motivate and empower your learners.

This session is aimed at academics looking to re-discover assessment and feedback approaches. We will signpost academics to additional CPD workshops which delve deeper into assessment literacy and feedback literacy.

Transform your assessment approach. This is your chance to innovate, collaborate, and inspire. Let’s make feedback and assessment work for you and your students.

By the end of this session, you will:

• Identify the key elements of high-impact, authentic assessment and feedback.

• Apply the principles of assessment for, of, and as learning in your own practice.

• Explore strategies to create feedback that students value and use.

• Reflect on the wider drivers influencing assessment design, including NSS, TESTA, and inclusivity.