The 14th Learning at City conference will take place on Wednesday 19 June 2024.
Registration for the conference will open in May 2024.
Re-imagining assessment for learning in a changing HE landscape
Assessment powerfully frames how students learn, what they achieve and what they gain from their experience of higher education (Boud 2010).
Despite us all knowing this there continues to be issues with the forms of assessment we use, how students engage with these and the purpose of the assessment activities used.
This has been a source of both student and staff frustration over a number of years.
The debates have continued but so too has the shift to authentic assessment and Sambell and Brown (2021) provide a range of examples of these.
McArthur (2023) adds to this discussion but calls for rethinking authentic assessment to include the relevance or purpose of assessment in relation to society and the purpose of assessment.
As the sector continues to look at what might be best practice for assessment including feedback now is an appropriate time to be exploring this and how practices may have changed.
References
Boud, D. and Associates (2010). Assessment 2020 [PDF]: Seven propositions for assessment reform in higher education. Sydney: Australian Learning and Teaching Council (accessed 12/01/24)
McArthur J (2023) Rethinking authentic assessment work, well-being, and society Higher Education Vol.85 p85-101
Sambell K & Brown S (2021) Covid-19 Assessment Collection (accessed 10/01/24)
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