Assessment
and Feedback
Explore innovative and creative ways to assess student learning with tools like Panopto, blogging and Nearpod. From interactive presentations to inclusive practices, discover modern approaches that enhance engagement, diversify assessment methods and make feedback more impactful. Transform your teaching and assessment strategies with cutting-edge resources designed to support both educators and students.
Assessment and Feedback Resources
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.
Supporting student group work
This resource provides guidance for staff using assessed group work and came about as a result of the Westminster Change Academy (WCA) Project ‘Supporting Student Group work’ led by John Begg in the University of Westminster’s College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries (DCDI).
DIY toolkit for alternative and inclusive assessment practice
This toolkit, produced by Nottingham Trent University Centre for Academic Development and Quality. is intended to assist programme teams in identifying how they can further improve access for, and inclusion of, disabled students when devising assessments.
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.
Assessment Standards Knowledge Exchange (ASKe)
Aims to inform, inspire and support the HE community through the continuing development of an evidence base concerned with learning and teaching especially around assessment and feedback
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.
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