From the Assessment Task and Finish Group, two new guides for staff and students have been produced:
Making feedback on assignments effective; a style guide for tutors
Providing feedback on assignments is one of the most time-consuming things tutors do. Extensive research shows that it can also be one of the most influential things tutors do to improve student learning. However, this relies on the students engaging with the feedback. It is known that successful engagement leads to better attainment for students and more positive student survey results. This document aims to provide guidance so that time spent marking has an impact.
Assessment Guidance for Students
This guide provides short explanations for various commonly used terms (e.g. formative and summative assessment) in order to help students, particularly those at Level 4, with their general knowledge and confidence in understanding the assessment process at the University.
We hope you will find the guides helpful and we encourage you to use them as a basis for course team discussions to help in further strengthening a consistent approach to explaining assessment and to providing feedback on assessments.
Note also that the University Assessment Policy was reviewed and updated at the end of the last academic year and can be found at http://www.worc.ac.uk/aqu/documents/AssessmentPolicy.pdf