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Category Archives: conferences
ViCE/PHEC 2014
The ‘interesting’ title of this post relates to the joint Variety in Chemistry Education/Physics Higher Education Conference that I was on my way home from a week ago. Apologies for my delay in posting, but since then I have celebrated my … Continue reading
Staff engagement with e-assessment
More reflections from CAA2013 (held in Southampton, just down the road from the Isle of Wight ferry terminal – shown)… In the opening keynote, Don Mackenzie talked about the ‘rise and rise of multiple-choice questions’. This was interesting, because he was … Continue reading
The Cargo Cult
I suspect that this reflection from the 14th International Computer Aided Conference (CAA2013) may not go down well with all of my readers. I refer to the mention in several papers of the use of technology in teaching and learning … Continue reading
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Tagged CAA 2013, CAA Conference, Cargo Cult, Richard Feynman
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Oral feedback and assessment
As discussed in my previous post, the Assessment in Higher Education Conference was excellent. I helped Tim Hunt to run a ‘MasterClass’ (workshop!) on ‘Producing high quality computer-marked assessment’ and, with Janet Haresnape, ran a practice exchange on the evaluation … Continue reading
Good
The other thing that was discussed at yesterday’s ‘Analysing feedback’ session at the JISC online conference ‘Innovating e-Learning: shaping the future’ was the role of praise in feedback.
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Tagged conferences, feedback, Gwyneth Hughes, JISC, praise
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Assessment in HE Conference
This is an unashamed advertisement for the Assessment in HE Conference, to be held on 26th-27th June 2013. This is the 4th such conference, but it is moving from a 1-day to a 2-day event and from Carlisle to Birmingham. … Continue reading
CAA 2012
Last week I attended the International Computer Assisted Assessment Conference in Southampton. This is the third consecutive year I’ve attended this conference and I enjoyed it, even if it was sometimes challenging to the point of being depressing. So what … Continue reading
Throw away the handouts
I was at a meeting in Bristol yesterday ‘Using assessment to engage students and enhance their learning’. Much of the discussion was on the use of peer assessment (and plenty of interesting stuff), with a keynote from Paul Orsmond, considering student and … Continue reading
The testing effect
This will be my final post that picks up a theme from CAA 2011 , but the potential implications of this one are massive. For the past few weeks I have been trying to get my head around the significance of the ideas I was … Continue reading
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Tagged CAA 2011, CAA Conference, John Kleeman, Roddy Roediger, testing effect
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The impact of item format
One of the things I’ve found time and time again in my investigations into student engagement with e-assessment is that little things can make a difference. Therefore the research done by Matt Haigh of Cambridge Assessment into the impact of question … Continue reading
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Tagged CAA 2011, CAA Conference, Cambridge Assessment, Item format, Matt Haigh, question difficulty
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