Assessment of learning

  Browse my bookmarks covering assessment  at URL :  http://del.icio.us/deliboy/assessment

A netskills course with some activities to use:

http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/projects/jisc-academy-harnessing-assessment/part1.html

• An Introduction to Assessment

This paper covers some basic premises as a result of a 2006 survey. Aimed squarely at HE in FE. A very interesting read. http://www.palatine.ac.uk/files/740.pdf

• TESEP & REAP projects. (JISC funded )

They redesigned the courses and pedagogy to create better assessments. Concrete examples of how assessment can be pshed in creative ways : http://www.reap.ac.uk/

One of the best examples of adopting a student centred approach I've EVER seen :   http://www2.napier.ac.uk/transform/why.htm

TESEP case studies covering successful types of creative assessment here:

http://www2.napier.ac.uk/transform/transformation_pc.htm

The paper entitled “Transforming and Enhancing the Student Experience Through Pedagogy” written by Professor Terry Mayes, that supports the project outcomes is available here:    http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearningsfc/sfcbooklettesep.pdf

TESEP Blog posts

http://he.rscwmsystems.org.uk/wordpress/?p=50

http://scottish-rscs.org.uk/newsfeed/?p=480

• Northumbria University- CETL - Assessment for Learning

http://northumbria.ac.uk/cetl_afl/

• Oxford Brookes University - CETL - Assessment Standards Knowledge exchange

http://www.business.brookes.ac.uk/learningandteaching/aske/

• Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) new guide on effective practice for e-assessment

http://www.efutures.org/docs/guide.pdf

•  JISC (e)assessment research

• My own course on Instructional design covers assessment and constructive alignment

   

http://he.rscwmsystems.org.uk/Designing%20and%20elearning%20activity-Oct2007/page_10.htm

•  Developing a new Summative assessment set of protocols for HE : http://he.rscwmsystems.org.uk/wordpress/?p=135

   

• Sources of reference covering creative assessment

Measuring and recording student achievement - Scoping report by Professor Robert Burgess -

This report recognises the importance of the Dearing recommendations and the use of a student progress file to record progress. This report also discusses alternative ways of assessing progress using eportfolios, and the emergence of ePDP and personal learning spaces. Read the full 68 page report here: http://bookshop.universitiesuk.ac.uk/downloads/measuringachievement.pdf

• http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/assess/types.html
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• http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/learning/assessment
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• http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/38/04701808/0470180838.pdf
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• http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/eds/learning_and_teaching/blended_learning.html
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• http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/HEinFE/documents/HEinFEAssessmentProgramme.pdf
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• http://www.kshec.kerala.gov.in/rue.htm (see point 13)
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 Examination reforms are absolutely essential to bring in desired effects of the proposed restructuring.  Questions which are purely memory recall do not help in assessing the achievement of objectives. They do not test the ability of the student to apply the knowledge in a new situation. Universities should not approve heavy dose of questions as open-ended as ‘write short notes’ or questions, which simply require students to explain key words or expressions.   The school education system in Kerala has already switched over to a creative assessment process and the higher education system needs to follow suit. A judicious mix of questions which (i) assess the direct knowledge of the student, (ii) assess standard application of knowledge, (iii) challenge the students by requiring to apply the knowledge earned through the course in a totally new situation and (iv) evaluate the ability to synthesize knowledge drawn from various sources, would be required.

• Computer Aided Assessment

• CAA centre frequently asked questions

http://www.caacentre.ac.uk/resources/faqs/index.shtml

• CAA centre designing assessments to promote higher order skills

http://www.caacentre.ac.uk/resources/faqs/higher.shtml

• Building better e-assessments

http://www.learningcircuits.org/2001/jun2001/driscoll.html

•  Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment

 Assessment vs. Grades

http://www.siue.edu/~deder/assess/cats/gradesv.html

• QMark has some useful pointers on CAA principles