My presentation (Jan 2015) to colleagues on assessment and feedback

1. .…is not enough
A conversation about improving assessment and feedback
Clive Buckley
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2. What’s the point of
assessment?

3. Assessment should help
students learn.

4. Assessment for learning
Assessment of learning

5. Assessment should be
consistent with the
identified learning
outcomes.

6. The assessment criteria
should be transparent
and inclusive. (Rubric)

7. Assessment
should be
reliable

8. Assessment should
be designed to
reduce the chance of
plagiarism

9. Students need to
understand clearly what is
expected of them

10. Mark against the
criteria

11. Providing student
feedback

12. The student perspective

14. The seven principles of good feedback practice
1.Facilitates the development of self–assessment (reflection) in learning.
2.Encourages teacher and peer dialogue around learning.
3.Helps clarify what good performance is.
4.Provides opportunities to close the gap between current and desired
performance.
5.Delivers high quality information to students about their learning.
6.Encourages positive motivational beliefs and self-esteem.
7.Provides information to teachers that can be used to help shape teaching.
Juwah et.al.(2004)
Courtesy of Chrissi Nerantzi (Salford University)

15. Electronic submission and
marking

16. The sandwich

17. Start with the
positives
• Clear
• Specific
• Personal
• Honest

18. Then the negatives
(constructive)

19. End with the
positives

20. Looking forward

21. Make it obvious

22. Things to do to hinder
learning

23. From: Brown, S. “Assessment for Learning” Learning and
Teaching in Higher Education, Issue 1, 2004-05
How to use assessment to prevent learning!
• Keep students in the dark about the rules of the game.
• Do all the assessment at the end of the learning programme
• Make sure you know the identity of the student who has done each
piece of work.
• To be fair to all students, give each an identical test.
• For coursework assessments, stick firmly to your deadlines.
• Don’t indicate how many marks go with each of the parts of your
questions.
• Don’t give students any written feedback.
• Don’t get into discussions with a class about how they will be
assessed.

24. Questions ?

25. Thank you
Clive Buckley
Glyndŵr University

26. Image credits
Slide 2: Chris Winters “Angled happy”
Slide 4: Chiceaux Lynch “You Can't Photoshop Away Sad”
Slide 5: Neville Nel “What's the point?”
Slide 7: Pratham Books “Children Reading Pratham Books and Akshara”
Slide 8: IamNotUnique “Learning the Quran”
Slide 9: Dave Gough “destiny”
Slide 10: ‫ڪ‬ario Reale “Sensation”
Slide 11: raymondclarkeimages “Reliable”
Slide 12: Gustavo Martinez “Copy Paste”
Slide 13: Kate Ter Haar “I Can See Clearly Now”
Slide 14: Theen Moy “Overhead Mark”
Slide 15: U.S. Army John F. Kennedy “Cultural Support Team Assessment and Selection”
Slide 16: Theen Moy “Student Feet”
Slide 17: Oxford Brookes University “Another Tick In The Box”
Slide 19: Thomas Hawk “Electronic”
Slide 20: cyclonebill “Sandwich med spinat og grillet oksekød”
Slide 21 / 23: Manish Bansal “Smile”
Slide 22: Kurt Komoda “IMG_9870”

27. Slide 24: Alex Badwater “Basin”
Slide 26: Wendy “Smokey says...”
Slide 27: derriel street photography ‘Thank You’
Slide 28: Adam Moralee “My portrait”