Enhancing Impact of Evidence-Informed Changes to Assessment and Feedback
- Start date: 2010-09-14
- End date: 2010-07-31
- Status: in progress
- Funding Initiative: EQUIP
The University of Winchester have always been passionate about assessment and feedback and the subsequent impact on the student learning experience. Following a trend of poor assessment scores on the NSS, a series of small internal and external projects funded by the institution were conducted. From this platform, the Academy awarded Winchester an NTFS project - TESTA (Transforming the Experience of Students Through Assessment, www.testa.ac.uk), funded over 3 years.
Participation within the EQUIP programme would allow the dissemination of a tried and tested methodological approach to enhancing the programme-level assessment and feedback experience of students. Since Phase 1 of TESTA, which included the collection of data from seven programmes across four institutions, more than eight additional programmes from partner institutions have expressed interest in being TESTA'd. Participation in the EQUIP programme would facilitate a greater impact of the TESTA research through wider engagement, dialogue, and strategic discourse around the change processes. The successful embedding of the methodology within validation and re-approval processes would add a bigger impact from the evidence and statements of programme teams currently involved (than the initial project predicted). The culmination of these developments will encourage the project leaders and EQUIP programme team to draw together some of the key conceptualisations in reflection on the programmatic/institutional change process.
Lead Contact:Yaz El Hakim
Organisation/Institutions:University of Winchester