Assessment and Feedback
TWO: Programme Level Assessment (no over-assessing and Assessment Schedules)
Too
often, Students and lecturers do not have an overview of the assessment of the
Study Programme. Students tend not to grasp their assessment workload. They
aren’t always sure how many assessment tasks they have at any one time. They
aren’t confident about the assignments they have submitted and can be confused
about when they get results and/or feedback or both.
Lecturers
don’t always see the assessment load that students have. Having a programme
assessment strategy enables students and lecturers to have an understanding of
the student assessment experience.
from
'NF - HoD perspective on Programme Level Assessment.pdf' (Dr. Marion Palmer
2013) – see hyperlink below
Here
are some questions to ask:
• How many assignments do your students have over the
year?
• How long is needed between submission of student work
and the issue of provisional results and feedback?
• What assessment methods assess the programme and module
learning outcomes?
• What assessment methods do students experience over the
whole programme?
• Over the course of a full programme, do students have
enough/too many essays/projects/tests?
How many essays (or other assessment methods) do students
do in Year 1 (2, 3, as appropriate)?
• Is there over-assessment or under-assessment? Are all
the assignments/tests/projects/exams needed?
• How do the assessment methods link within and across
modules?
• How does the assessment planned for a module meet the
module learning outcomes?
What does it contribute to the assessment of the
programme learning outcomes?
• Where do students develop the academic referencing and
writing skills needed for the programme?
How are these assessed?
• How do assessments fit with the student effort hours
per module? Have students time to read,
to practice skills or to just think?
• Do students have time to prepare for exams?
'NF - HoD perspective on Programme Level Assessment.pdf'
(Dr. Marion Palmer 2013)
This is an excellent 2 page document asking some very useful questions about a Study Programme's coordination of Assessment and Feedback
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