Blogging for assessment

Blogging offers a way for students to have ‘learning conversations’ with one another, allowing them to present their ideas and assumptions for questioning and discussion by peers, thus gaining the opportunity to construct, defend, refine and reconstruct their knowledge.

Example grading criteria for marking blogs in higher education

Nearpod for creativity, engagement and assessment

Nearpod is an online, interactive tool that allows you to create interactive, multi-media presentations, and share them with your classes.

Assessment: Designing for inclusion

This resource on inclusive assessment, produced by Nottingham Trent University Centre for Academic Development and Quality. is focussed on design issues and on the degree to which specific assessment types can cause difficulties for some students.

Transforming the Experience of Students through Assessment (TESTA)

TESTA aims to improve the quality of student learning through addressing programme-level assessment.

Grade Descriptors

The above link will take you to the University’s grade descriptor guidance.

Formative assessment and feedback

Resource produced by Nottingham Trent University Centre for Academic Development and Quality.

Designing assessment for learning

This toolkit produced by Macquarie University’s Learning and Teaching Centre will help you understand better the implications of assessment and how to design engaging and productive assessments for your students.

Games-based learning for systems analysis and design

This paper from the HEA Resources bank describes the use of games-based learning in the teaching and assessment of Systems Analysis and Design. The approach used is game-based learning in a STEM subject, but the principle of using a project that requires students to understand key concepts in order for them to use them to, for example,  design something or develop a debating position can be used in any subject.

Transforming assessment in higher education toolkit

This HEA toolkit complements the strategic direction set out in the HEA’s Framework for transforming assessment in higher education and offers tools for reflection and planning to help you embed the framework into policy and practice.