Useful links and resources

An Assessment Toolkit produced by Claire Gordon, Jane Hughes and Colleen McKenna, for the University of London International Programmes. 

Digiexplanations

Website to support development of student-created digital media 

JISC Assessment Guides

MCQ Workshop - Dr Jane Holland

Great overview on writing good MCQs and item analysis.

New Media for Science is an ALTC funded research project to develop the professional abilities required by science graduates through 'authentic' exercises -- student publication of wikis, podcasts, blogs, and videos. More about our project.

This wiki is a resource for science academics and students who wish to incorporate new media in their teaching, research, or project work.

NUS Charter for Technology in Higher Education

A Marked Improvement: Transforming assessment in higher education

https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/system/files/a_marked_improvement.pdf

Across higher education, it is time for a significant reappraisal of assessment strategy, policy and practice through evidence-informed change. This publication has been developed by a group of experts in the field of higher education, working with the Higher EducationAcademy (HEA) to provide a strong rationale for transforming assessment in higher education, underpinned by an established evidence base. Importantly,this publication also provides an assessment review tool, which offers a practical method to take stock of current practice and look to a targeted approach to strategic change.

The publication builds on two decades of extensive support for teaching, learning and assessment in UK higher education, which has been provided by a range of organisations and initiatives. In relation to assessment,the HEA, its former subject centres and the Centres for Excellence inTeaching and Learning have taken a key role in developing and promoting this expertise in assessment.Accordingly,the developed rationale and review tool are based on:

• Assessment standards: a Manifesto for Change1 created by an international forum of experts on assessment in higher education brought together by theAssessment Standards Knowledge exchange (ASKe) Centre for Excellence inTeaching and Learning at Oxford Brookes University;

• work from the Centres for Excellence inTeaching and Learning at Oxford Brookes University (ASKe) and the University of Northumbria (Assessment for Learning);

• previous work of the HEA, its subject centres,the Learning andTeaching Support Network (LTSN) and the Institute for Learning andTeaching in Higher Education (ILTHE).

The Manifesto has been the primary organising framework for the development of the review tool, with six tenets or evidence-based principles for assessment policy and practice.

The arguments and conclusions presented in this publication are based on the best research evidence available in the field of educational assessment. References in Section 4 provide key sources for the evidence, along with resources for staff in higher education.

Assessment Careers

The UCL Institute of Education's Jisc-funded project explored a new approach to assessment drawing on the concept of an 'Assessment Career'. An Assessment Career provides learners with the support and resources to take a longitudinal view of assessment and feedback rather than viewing each module as a separate hurdle to overcome - it is like turning a series of jobs into a career. With a focus on feedback, an assessment career can change the way formal feedback is produced and the way students engage with feedback. 
Further details about the project are here: http://j.mp/assessmentcareers

The impact of RefME on the student experience

This white paper, published by RefME in 2016, examines the impact of using the referencing tool. Read the paper here.

Results of the HeLF EMA Survey 2016

The UK Heads of e-Learning Forum conduct an annual survey regarding Electronic Management of Assessment

Here are the quantitative results for the EMA section of the survey:  
http://www.slideshare.net/barbaranewland/helf-uk-he-research-on-electronic-management-of-assessment-2016