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Author Archives: Sally Jordan
The e-Feedback Evaluation Project
Another JISC-funded project (at the OU Department of Languages and the University of Manchester) looking at student use of feedback. There is more at https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/efep/ The interesting things about this project are (1) that both written and oral feedback will … Continue reading
Assessing blogs and forums
There is an extremely interesting post and discussion here : http://www.nadinemuller.org.uk/blog/e-musings/ Basically, students don’t like the idea of posts to blogs or discussion forums being assessed. They feel they have to be careful how they write (because the work is … 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.
Posted in conferences, feedback, JISC, praise
Tagged conferences, feedback, Gwyneth Hughes, JISC, praise
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Analysing feedback comments
I’m participating in the ‘activity week’ of the JISC online conference ‘Innovating e-Learning: shaping the future’ and yesterday I caught just 30 minutes of an incredibly interesting session on ‘Analysing feedback’. I have just watched the recording of the rest … Continue reading
Let’s have a feedback party
Another day, another webinar. Today’s was a very useful JISC webinar from the University of Glamorgan on their evaluation of ‘Assessment Diaries’ and Grademark. In a sense, we’ve had assessment diaries stitched up for some time at the OU, because … Continue reading
Funnelled assessment
So what is funnelled assessment? A chance to insert an image into what is becoming a rather boring blog? Maybe! But there is a serious idea here. If we are moving towards programme-focused assessment whilst keeping the assessment itself at … Continue reading
Unmarked assignments?
Yesterday was a busy day! After the STACK webinar I jumped in my car and drove to Milton Keynes to speak at an OU meeting about assessment, this run for and by the Childhood, Youth and Education Programme. This was somewhat nerve-wracking … Continue reading
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Tagged FAST, formative, Graham Gibbs, marks
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STACK
At 7am yesterday I was sitting at my computer, head-set on, for the Transforming Assessment webinar about STACK, led by Chris Sangwin in Birmingham, via Australia…(hence the early start). STACK will be released in December as a Moodle question type, … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Sangwin, computer algebra, STACK, Transforming Assessment
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Joined-up thinking
One of the themes that is buzzing around in the circles in which I move is ‘programme-focused assessment’. That terminology comes from Chris Rust who gave a workshop on the PASS (Programme Assessment Strategies) Project at the OU something over … Continue reading
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