Effective Assessment in a Digital Age

Effective Assessment in a Digital Age

A guide to technology-enhanced assessment and feedback

JISC supports UK further and higher education and research by providing leadership in the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in support of learning, teaching, research and administration. JISC receives funding from all the UK further and higher education funding councils.

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Effective Assessment in a Digital Age

Further information

For further information about JISC's work on technologyenhanced assessment, contact:

Sarah Davies JISC e-Learning Programme Manager JISC Innovation Group University of Bristol 3rd Floor, Beacon House Queen's Road Bristol BS8 1QU Email: info@jisc.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)117 331 0789

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Contents

Introduction

5

Context

6

Introducing technology-enhanced

assessment and feedback

8

Writing about practice

8

Benefits and challenges of assessment and feedback

in a technology-rich context

8

What technology offers

9

Designing effective assessment and feedback 10

Approaches to assessment

10

Formative assessment and feedback

12

Principles of effective formative assessment

and feedback

14

Adding in technology: designing

assessment in a digital age

17

The manager's perspective

18

The practitioner's perspective

20

The learner's perspective

22

Understanding assessment and feedback

in a digital age

25

Enhancing assessment and feedback with technology 26

Case studies of technology-enhanced practice

30

A changing landscape

50

Conclusion

53

Glossary

56

Further information

58

Supplementary online resources

60

Acknowledgements

61

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