Assessment
Assessment is a key process in post-16 education: it helps learners understand how they are progressing and informs their planning and future learning, and provides the basis for accrediting learning and achievement. Technology can support nearly every aspect of assessment in one way or another, from the administration of individual tests and assignments to the management of assessment across a faculty or institution; from automatically marked on-screen tests to tools to support human marking and feedback. JISC has been working in technology-enhanced assessment for over a decade, promoting work on the technical and interoperability issues associated with on-screen testing, and the broader technical, pedagogical and institutional considerations for the effective use of a wide range of technologies to support assessment and feedback. See an overview of JISC’s assessment activities
Key assessment activities
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Programmes
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e-Learning programme
The JISC e-learning programme enables the development and effective use of digital technologies to support learning and teaching in universities and colleges, so that staff benefit from e-learning...
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Transforming curriculum delivery through technology
It is important for institutions to develop more flexible and creative models of delivery to support the development of autonomous, lifelong learners who are skilled in reflecting on their learning...
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Repositories and Preservation Programme
The programme is a £14m investment in Higher Education repository and digital content infrastructure. It will fund initiatives to develop the Information Environment supporting digital repositories...
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Learning and teaching innovation grants
JISC is supporting, via this programme, one year projects and activities that fit with the vision, outcomes and principles of the JISC e-Learning programme and support innovative approaches to...
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e-Learning Frameworks and Tools programme
The e-Learning Framework is a service-oriented factoring of the core services required to support e-Learning applications, portals and other user agents.
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Projects
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Making assessment count
This project will enhance curriculum delivery through the development of an innovative assessment feedback process. Simple e-based technologies (specifically blogs and online questionnaires) will be...
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e-Assessment in Wales
The aim of this project is to explore and develop the role that e-assessment can play in enhancing the student experience of HE students in an FE college.
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Mathematics Question Bank
The project will establish a national repository for mathematics e-assessment questions for UK higher education institutions drawing on the experience of different groups and systems currently...
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Optimising Audio Feedback Assisted Learning for Student and Staff Experience
Because there are many possible methods for performing audio feedback, this research project aims to compare different methods of audio feedback.
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Effecting sustainable change in assessment practice & experience
This project is responding to institutional and national concerns regarding assessment and feedback. Working with two Schools in the institution, the project will develop assessment for learning...
