This briefing paper from June 2006 summarises all the eassessment activities being carried out by JISC and is a good roadmap to the resources available on their eassessment website.
Learning Through Online Discussion: A Framework Evidenced in Learners' Interactions by Yvonne Bain
Presented at ALT-C 2011
The Making Assessment Count (MAC) project started at the University of Westminster in 2008. It sought to align staff and student expectations of feedback and support greater use of feed-forward approaches. The process was based on a student-centred, three-stage model of feedback: Subject specific, Operational and Strategic (SOS model). The student uses the subject tutor's feedback on an assignment to complete an online self-review questionnaire delivered by a simple tool. The student answers are processed by a web application called e-Reflect to generate a further feedback report. Contained within this report are personalised graphical representations of performance, time management, satisfaction and other operational feedback designed to help the student reflect on their approach to preparation and completion of future work. The student then writes in an online learning journal, which is shared with their personal tutor to support the personal tutorial process and the student's own development plan (PDP).
JISC has a series of programmes and projects related to assessment and they are listed on this page. This is a good site for keeping up with all that JISC is doing on assessment. Subscribe to the RSS feed on this page to keep up with assessment news.
Video case study on how a voting system is used in a Chemistry lecture to assess learning and to improve student learning.