Funder
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Timescale
Sept 2011 – Aug 2014
Research Team
References
Hughes, G. (2011) Aiming for Personal Best: a Case for Introducing Ipsative Assessment in Higher Education. Studies in Higher Education 36 (3), 353 – 367
Related links
Assessment Careers: enhancing learning pathways through assessment
Introduction
Assessment is often viewed as a series of one-off events. This means that learners do not always benefit from feedback, they lack a sense of progress and self-reliance is not encouraged.
This project will reconceptualise assessment from the perspective of an assessment career and use this to transform our institution's assessment processes. Like a working career, an assessment career develops through a series of related events that join up to give a coherent and progressive pathway that is self-directed.
Building on previous initiatives at the IOE and research across the sector, we will develop and pilot an Assessment Career framework to include ipsative assessment (assessment focussed on learner progress); multi-stage assessment, and assessment career audits to help learners overcome negative past experiences of assessment.
Our VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) will support the framework through assessment templates and improving records of feedback over time.
Project updates and documents can be found on the project Blog at IOE JISC Involve
Summary of activities
The project involves 3 phases:
- 2011-2-12
The first creates a baseline report using existing institutional and external research and development to refine the Assessment Career framework.
- 2012-2013
In the second phase, 5 case studies will test application of the framework using a modeling tool to ensure efficiency and sustainability. A common evaluation methodology will be developed.
- 2013-2014
In the third phase, the project will scale up innovation and share staff expertise, extending the new Assessment Career framework across programme clusters, and embedding the framework into institutional structures and procedures.
Details of the pilots and their evaluations will be made available to the Higher Education (HE) sector, along with a report of how technology was used to embed the Assessment Career framework across the institution.