Changing assessment for good: building on the emergency switch to promote future-oriented assessment and feedback designs

Sambell, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8192-8537 and Brown, Sally (2021) Changing assessment for good: building on the emergency switch to promote future-oriented assessment and feedback designs. In: Baughan, Patrick, (ed.) Assessment and feedback in a post-pandemic era: a time for learning and inclusion. Advance HE, York, UK, pp. 11-21.

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Abstract

During the pandemic, to manage the difficulties produced by the shutdown of campuses, many universities initially responded by cancelling significant numbers of formal exams, reducing the volume of summative assessment and finding, often at speed, alternative ways of ensuring that learning outcomes had been met. This paper suggests that universities now have a vital opportunity to make positive long-term changes to assessment as a result of the rapid alterations many made due to campus closures during the pandemic. We now have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine assessment for good, rather than simply returning to the status quo. One way of supporting this change, we argue, is to reconceptualise assessment and feedback practices by adopting future-oriented design principles.

Item Type:	Book Section
Publisher:	Advance HE
ISBN:	9781916359352
Departments:	Professional Services > Academic Quality & Development (AQD)
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	24 Feb 2023 12:08
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2024 11:31
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/6918

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