UK Centre for Materials Education
Working with you to enhance the student experience
Working with you to enhance the student experience
1. Create banks of feedback comments made by students about assignments - the LTSN Assessment Guides on self-, peer- and group- assessment by Chris Rust and Phil Race
2. Give students a marking excercise, e.g. marking each other's work - the LTSN Assessment Guides on self-, peer- and group- assessment by Chris Rust and Phil Race
3. Send UKCME examples of good questions which require in-depth student response and we will create a database of them - the LTSN Assessment Guides on self-, peer- and group- assessment by Chris Rust and Phil Race
4. Get students to use a marking criteria to assess their own work before submission - the LTSN Assessment Guides on self-, peer- and group- assessment by Chris Rust and Phil Race
5. Only get 25% of lab reports marked - but the students don t know which 25% - Graham Gibbs, The Open University
6. Hold a Court of Inquiry as a framework for learning and assessment - e.g. Dr X is accused of... Ton Peijs, Queen Mary University of London
7. Develop a work based learning portfolio as an accreditation of learning on student placements - Richard Brown, Bradford College
8. Use a portfolio as a vehicle for learning and assessment - to show work done and learning acheived - David Baume, Open University
9. Use peer-marking of assessments as formative feedback where the work is a course requirement, but grades are not used - Strathclyde University
10. Create a question club where members must submit 10 questions per year and can then have access to all the other questions in the club - the LTSN Assessment Guides on self-, peer- and group- assessment by Chris Rust and Phil Race
The LTSN Guides are published by the LTSN Generic Centre and will be downloadable free of charge on the Web from Jan 2002.
