Dr Zahid Pranjol, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences and Deputy Head of School for Life Sciences, explains how a formative project-based learning (PBL) group work assessment helps develop his Foundation, first and second year students’ belonging and team work skills. …
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Building learning communities through formative group work
Tagged with: Assessment and Feedback, Cohesive and connected, Employability, Teaching and student engagement
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Using Buddycheck for peer evaluation
In this case study, Dr Alison Bailey, Senior Lecturer in Management, shares her experience of using Buddycheck for peer evaluation. What I did I am the module convenor for the Introduction to Business and Management module which runs in Year…
Tagged with: Assessment and Feedback, curriculum design, Inclusive and student-centred, Teaching and student engagement
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Scaffolding summative assessments
Dr Lorraine Smith In this case study, Dr Lorraine Smith, Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry, discusses how she scaffolds summative assessments for Foundation level students. What I did I implemented both an essay plan and draft formative assessment so that students…
Tagged with: Assessment and Feedback, Cohesive and connected, Inclusive and student-centred
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Engaging students through podcasting
Dr C. Rashaad Shabab In this case study, Senior Lecturer and award-winning teacher of Economics, Dr C. Rashaad Shabab, talks about how he is using podcasts as an innovative new assessment mode at Sussex. What I did I offered podcasts…
Tagged with: Assessment and Feedback, Employability, Inclusive and student-centred, Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Posted in Case Studies
Posted in Case Studies
Developing academic literacies in the era of artificial intelligence – part 2
This post follows on from an earlier post: developing academic literacies – part 1 If ‘write an essay’ is an instruction to students that follows a period of input on a particular topic, then students using artificial intelligence to…
Tagged with: Artificial intelligence (AI), Assessment and Feedback, Cohesive and connected, curriculum design, Inclusive and student-centred
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The need to rethink our approach to formative assessment in Higher Education
Dr Verona Ní Drisceoil is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Her current research focuses on transition pedagogy, inequality in education and assessment for learning. …
Re-imagining approaches to supporting students’ learning from feedback – the hidden curriculum, care-based pedagogies and learning communities
The culmination of the assessment cycle at the end of what has been a particularly challenging year offers an opportunity (once we have caught our breaths!) to revisit our understanding of how we can best support our students to learn…
Three tips for enhancing students’ engagement with feedback
In my many years of experience as an educator I have spent innumerable hours in writing feedback for students’ work. I always thought this was one of the most important elements of my role as a teacher, where I had…