On Friday 20th November the team came together, along with Andrew Edwards, from BBC Radio Leeds and John Smith, Senior Lecturer from Leeds Met, to be briefed on the types of assessment, and the terms, that they are likely to encounter, and to trial the draft interview questions.

 

 

Professor Sally Brown, National Teaching Fellow and Project Director, introduced the team members present: Professor Phil Race, Bob Rotherham, Jason McCartney, Professor Ralph Tench, Annisa Sulliman, Louise Conyard and Janice Priestley. She detailed the  programme for the day and explained how the project came about and why it is important to the students, the university and to higher education. 

 

Students were given an introduction to university assessment and the types of assessment that they are likely to find in universities in the UK, Europe and Internationally. Sally also introduced students to the Bologna process.

 

 

 

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Key things about assessment ASSIMILATE pr v7

 

An Assessment Glossary had been prepared by Professor Phil Race. Twelve of the words had been selected from the glossary to present the students with a task. Having listened to the presentation on assessment, students were divided into pairs. In each pair, one student was given a set of terms used in assessment and the other was given a set of descriptions. Each pair of students was asked to pair up the term and the desciption. This allowed students to identify terms which they may come across which they are not yet familiar with. They were later given the attached glossary document to help them develop their assessment vocabularly. The glossary will be a developing document and students have been encouraged to contribute to it terms which they become aware of which they have not previously known, or which have found are used and which they have had to find the meaning of.

 

 

Senior Lecturer Jason McCartney interviewed Pro-Vice-Chancellor Sally Brown and asked her a series of questions in order to gain an insight into assessment at Leeds Metropolitan University. The interview loosely followed a script, but Jason developed this as the interview progressed, using his experience to probe areas of interest further in response to Sally's answers.

 

See the attached draft interview questions  (please note that these questions have since been refined) Click here or click the image to play video

 

 

Senior Lectuer Annisa Suliman explained to the student how the work which they were to undertake on the project would be assessed during their course. She stressed the value of the project in providing authentic assessment as part of their course. Student were given details of how they would be assessed in the module and of the marking scheme.

 

 

BBC Radio Leeds broadcast journalist Andew Edwards gave advise to students before interviewing Leeds Metropolitan University Lecturer and Course/Programme Leader, John Smith, on the types of assessment used on his taught Masters programme. Andrew was working to a script which, like Jason, he had been given shortly before the interview. Andrew conducted the interview, probing areas particular of interest and seeking clarification  of terms as they emerge in the discussion. Following the interview he did a debrief with the students and answered questions.

 

See the attached draft interview questions. (please note that these questions have since been refined) Click here or click the image to play video