What previous participants have said
“The tasks set have been very useful and discussion with other students online has also proved worthwhile. …It is the encouragement of other students and the tutors which have helped me get through this course and I thank all of them. It has been a rewarding learning experience.”
“I feel that the course has achieved its aim and I have remodelled bad learning outcomes and understand more how to achieve better and quicker assessment and I'm incredibly grateful that the course tutors are so well published!”
“I have found the whole experience both frustrating and interesting. I’ve certainly learned a lot and have been brought to the conclusion that much of what I do is ‘right’. Time constraints have been the biggest problem. I would certainly recommend that others do not attempt to do two of these courses at the same time.”
“The course has brought assessment issues more to the front of my mind and has confirmed my belief in the power of formative assessment and peer assessment to enhance learning - and that summative assessment should confirm learning not 'test' it. The course has reminded me of the variety of assessment strategies that are available to me and introduced me to new strategies.”
“First - many thanks for a very stimulating and informative course. The course content has been very valuable. I have felt overwhelmed by information most weeks, so perhaps consider the balance between the demands of the various activities and the overall weekly time suggested for the course”
“Many thanks for a course that has confirmed that I am thinking along the right lines with how I want to develop the assessment of our programmes, has given me some terminology and theoretical backing for what I'm doing already and has given me plenty of ideas for the future.”
“I have told lots of people about this course and how useful it is. The course and my present task of writing the assessment strategy have sat very well together with both enriching the other. Thanks for all the comments and especially the summaries.”
“Firstly have greatly enjoyed the course and the new experience of learning online and would not hesitate to recommend or participate in one again. Definitely a positive experience overall. Have gained a clearer insight into the assessment process and feel much more capable in my new role as Assessment Officer (from this September). More capable in taking a lead to develop our existing summative structure towards our next revalidation, to advise and suggest alternatives to colleagues to address problems encountered, and to integrate more innovative, formative assessment strategies, into a constructively aligned programme.”
“Found the online working/ discussion very interesting and the group work fun but challenging, I felt I needed more time and greater skill in this area, but still have some strategies now for improving our own use of blackboard.”
“Excellent, well constructed course. I would strongly recommend it. It has clarified my thinking and will lead to new practices in the revision of our BA programme currently underway.”
“I think the weekly time needed for the course was underestimated, but I don't want a reduction of the content. I would rather have a somewhat longer outer envelope, with more lead-in time to prepare the exercises.”
“I would have found it useful to have had the reading earlier, and also a pre-course task of selecting a module to think about existing learning outcomes and assessment might have been useful - to enable me just to have the ideas at the front of my mind before we embarked on thinking about it critically.”