University assessment practices just don't add up - Professor Chris Rust
Wednesday 26 January 2011, 18:00 until 20:00
Open to all
Of particular interest to: Staff - teaching / Academic community
Location
Main Lecture Theatre, Clerici building, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane site
Details
Professorial Lecture
It is clear from literature that assessment plays a vital role in student learning. It can influence the approach to learning taken by students, and assessment feedback is clearly a crucial part of the learning cycle.
Assessment, in terms of qualification and accreditation, is also a very important part of a university’s purpose. Unfortunately, all the indications are that universities around the world are actually very bad at assessment and many assessment practices are inherently and seriously flawed. This presentation will identify how and why those assessment practices are flawed before identifying how they could, and should, be improved.
Professor Chris Rust is Head of the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development (OCSLD) and Deputy Director of the Directorate of Human Resources at Oxford Brookes University. He is a fellow of both SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association) and the RSA, and a senior fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, for whom he was also an accreditor.
