Release notes We released v0.1 of the Digital Assessment Maturity Model in March 2023, and spent the rest of the month talking to people from the sector and refining our initial work. This blog post lays out the 0.2 version of the model and outlines how it may be used. Current assessment landscape Assessment processes […]
Author: Marcus Elliott
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, it forced UK education institutions to shift teaching online. It was widely assumed that it might only be for a few weeks, but then as spring gave way to summer, it was clear that assessments would have to change markedly and quickly. Three years on, we have […]
As part of our work on a digital assessment maturity model, this post contains a more in-depth look at the creation and resourcing phase. Assessment creation and resourcing At the level of approaching and understanding, assessments are often limited to a small number of assessment types and are manually created. The timetabling and administration of […]
As part of our work on a digital assessment maturity model, this post contains a more in-depth look at the assessment design phase. Marking and feedback The marking and feedback for assessments is manual at the approaching and understanding stage. Staff will grade assignments and provide hand-written feedback to students. The feedback process is often […]
As part of our work on a digital assessment maturity model, this post contains a more in-depth look at the quality management phase. Quality management of assessment When approaching and understanding digital assessment, student assessment data may be stored in ad-hoc, basic tools, such as Microsoft Excel. Sharing data may only take place via email […]
As part of our work on a digital assessment maturity model, this post contains a more in-depth look at the completion and submission phase. Assessment completion and submission There may be no digital element of assessment at the approaching and understanding the completion and submission process. While students may use word processors or other software […]
As part of our work on a digital assessment maturity model, this post contains a more in-depth look at the assessment design phase. Assessment design When approaching and understanding assessment design, most assessment will be simple, and often paper-based. The design process is often manual. Digital assessment may be sometimes used to supplement traditional assessment […]
In education, we often hear the same issues cropping up again and again: lecture capture, learning analytics, internationalisation, and so on. These are all important, and we often approach them thematically, within their own bubbles. In Paul Bailey’s recent post about macro trends, he says “we believe that significant and accelerated change can be expected […]
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On Tuesday 22 November, Harvey Norman and I were asked to run a session at the Jisc Student Experience Experts group in Birmingham. We took the opportunity to introduce the Pathfinders initiative and to give the delegates a chance to experience one of the many methods we use as part of our innovation process. With […]