Assessment

Assessment is key both learning successfully, and to completing your course successfully. All the information about UAL’s assessment regulations, and recent changes to how assessment takes place can be found on the UAL Assessment website.

Patterns of formative assessment are commonly delivered through formalised review sessions and perhaps informal studio discussion. The structure of formal reviews usually places students in direct conversation with teachers but often excludes other students despite best efforts to be inclusive at the review. We cannot assume students develop a culture of informal peer assessment.

University of Essex resource pages on co-ordinating effective group working practices and assessment. Groupwork can provide students with opportunities to develop skills and qualities which are important for their long term future. The problems associated with assessing group work are also well documented. The main concerns for staff and students seem to be the allocation of marks across the group, the nature of the task to be assessed and the problem of freeloaders.

A Higher Education Academy resource containing material from HEIs on effective practices and approaches to assessment across the sector.

A selection of videos looking at the views of staff and students on different areas of assessment, marking, feedback and plagiarism.

ASKe is the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning based at Oxford Brookes University Business School. The website provides 10 practical guides on improving Assessment, Supporting student engagement and sharing good practice around assessment.