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Assessing our students is probably the most important thing we do with them during their journey through University. This course will provide you with a structured approach to critique and enhance your assessment practices through engaging with the literature and consideration of your own context. We will address issues such as plagiarism, providing useful feedback and a variety of assessment types.

There are approximately 40 hours of facilitated study on this course. Around 9 hours are 'online live', synchronous sessions online (approximately weekly). Eight of these are seminars, with a one hour tutorial. Much of the remaining timetable involves asynchronous 'online anytime' learning activities designed by the lecturers for you to complete. Lecturers will provide guidance on when these asynchronous activities would be best attempted (e.g. before or after 'online live' sessions).

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The summative assessment for this course is to: 

Design two summative assessments for one of the courses you teach. Below are the specific instructions and expectations.

A) Provide a background to the course (200 words).

■ This will be a summary of the most influential factors from your course on your assessment design (from the Assessment Biography)

■ Must include the ILO's that are being assessed

■ Must indicate the version of the ILO (original as it is used on the course, or the redesigned version from the Assessment Biography)

B) Design a series of 2 summative assessments that together cover all of the ILOs on the course you have chosen [ILO 1, A3].

■ The two summative assessments must be different assessment methods.

■ This section must include a brief description of how feedback will be provided to the students.

C) Write a brief description of 2 appropriate formative assessments, one for each of the summative assessments listed above.

■ You should be explicit about how the method of formative assessment is the most appropriate method of assessment for the summative assessment it supports.

■ It highlights at least 1 ILO covered by the summative assessment.

■ You may include any rubrics you have as an appendix.

Sections B and C should be 1,100 words total.

D) You should include a commentary of around 1200 words [ILO2] which should include the following:

■ A rationale for your proposed assessments and feedback methods (with reference to relevant literature, scholarship and quality and academic standards frameworks relevant to your context, including reference to K1, K2, K4, K5, V1, V2, V3, V4, V5).

■ Rationale should discuss the specific design methods used and how they helped you tailor your assessments to your specific context.

Total word count for assignment: 2,500 words.

This course aims to provide you with a structured approach to critically analyse, and thereby enhance, assessment and feedback practice. The course will address issues such as approaches to and literacy within assessment and feedback, and will require you to consider assessment and feedback practice within your own context [A1, A3, K1, K2, K4, K5, V1, V2, V3, V4, V5].

By the end of this course you should be able to:

1. Design a variety of assessment and feedback approaches for use within your practice [A1, A3]; and

2. Justify your assessment and feedback designs using relevant literature, scholarship and academic standards frameworks relevant to your context [K1, K2, K4, K5, V1, V2, V3, V4, V5].

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.