New book on assessment and feedback for teachers in higher education

This new book, Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education A Guide for Teachers, published on 01 May 2020, is written by Teresa McConlogue, a Principal Teaching Fellow, UCL Arena Centre for Research-based Education.

Developing high-quality assessment

Assessment in higher education dominates students’ thinking and teachers’ workload.

Teachers spend a great deal of their time designing assessments and marking students’ work but often have little professional development on how to design valid and reliable assessments. 

It brings together research on assessment in higher education and evidence from practice to suggest strategies and activities to enhance assessment.

A key concept is the importance of helping students, and teachers, to better understand academic standards. 

Themes explored in the book:

• designing assessment for modules and across programmes
• helping students understand assessment processes and assessment standards
• ensuring assessment is inclusive and designed to meet the needs of marginalised groups
• involving students in the design of assessment and in assessment judgements
• helping markers to make reliable judgements about students’ work 

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