This module delves into the significance of assessment and feedback within the learning process in higher education and the quality assurance mechanisms that ensure their effectiveness. It examines the pedagogical principles guiding assessment and feedback, aiding participants in a creative examination of how their discipline-specific needs shape the assessment and feedback structure of their courses. The module encompasses a variety of theoretical frameworks, research findings, and pedagogical trials to evaluate the role of assessment in learning and its pivotal contribution to the student experience. It provides participants with the chance to contemplate a particular issue and devise and test a strategy that enhances student engagement with assessment and feedback.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify and analyse pedagogical strategies and experiments to interrogate own practice around sector-wide processes of feedback and assessment.
2. Critically explore a range of concepts and technologies around assessment and feedback and discern their relevance to specific professional practice.
   
3. Critically contextualise findings from research, scholarship and evidence-informed approaches to contextualise and apply selected strategies within their own teaching context or subject area.
4. Demonstrate awareness of how reflections on feedback and assessment strategies can inform own continuing professional development and enhance quality assurance. 

This module can contribute to the following programme(s)

5966: Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education