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ASKe was established as a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) based at Oxford Brookes University Business School (2005-10). It was set up with a £4.5 million award from HEFCE in recognition of good practice based on pedagogic research into aspects of assessment. The project focused on developing an evidence base and good practice to support HE communities in sharing understandings of assessment standards. ASKe's work now continues in conjunction with the Pedagogy Research Centre, based in the Faculty of Business.
ASKe produces an ongoing series of 1,2,3 leaflets which highlight some practical ways in which teaching staff can improve their students' learning. Each leaflet focuses on a piece of assessment-related research and clearly states how that research can be applied to teaching practice in three easy steps. There are others specifically for students which give clear, practical advice and encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning. For more information see the ASKe website.
Face-to-face feedback can be formal or informal, received from tutors or peers and take place within class or outside class. This helpful leaflet focuses on formal feedback from tutors and aims to simplify its complexities.
Would you like to help your students gauge how well they are doing? Are you concerned that your students fail to understand the feedback that you give them? Would you like to actively engage your students in the assessment process? If so, why don’t you try this three-step exercise?
How can students be helped to use their feedback? This leaflet explains what feedback is, why it is valuable, and sets out 3 easy steps for getting the very best out of feedback. A must for students to read!
Would you like to help your students gauge how well they are doing? Would you like to encourage them to become independent learners? Have you ever considered how generic feedback might improve individual performance? If so, why don’t you try this three-step exercise?
Why should we cultivate community? Evidence from the literature and practice shows that student involvement and a strong sense of community are highly significant factors in students’ academic success.
Assessment is more complex than most people think. This leaflet is designed to help students understand their entitlements under the Oxford Brookes Assessment Compact and the part they need to play to ensure they get the most from assessment.
Why should you encourage peer feedback? Would you like to enhance your students’ active engagement with their studies? Would you like to increase the amount of feedback your students receive? Would you like to increase your students’ disciplinary understanding? If so why not try our three easy steps to making peer feedback work…
Do you want to reduce the risk of inadvertent plagiarism in your students’ work? Would you like to educate your students, before assessment, about the meaning of plagiarism and how to avoid it? Can you see the value of using the latest tools and techniques to provide feedback for your students? If so, why don’t you try this three-step exercise? It doesn’t take up much time, and it works...
Do you want to avoid spending hours searching for plagiarism in your students' work? Do you want to design out easy opportunities for copying and 'faking' learning? Do you want to encourage your students' activity as a way of encouraging their learning? If so, try our three-step exercise!
The aim of this leaflet is not to prescribe one best method for the assessment of groupwork. Instead it attempts to set out the complex set of factors that need to be considered in designing and implementing groupwork assessment.