Author Archives: rachelf

Multi-professional teams

Posted on April 12, 2013 by rachelf

I suppose it’s tedious to keep emphasising the extent to which assessment is a critical activity in the lives of staff and students, but I’m going to carry on doing it until we think that all of our systems are … Continue reading →

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University Standards Descriptors

Posted on March 5, 2013 by rachelf

In an earlier post, I described the development of University Standards Descriptors to support a consistent approach to writing marking criteria across a very diverse institution. As part of the dissemination, I’ve done a short video to explain why they’ve been … Continue reading →

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Access to Feedback

Posted on March 4, 2013 by rachelf

Last week I attended a useful catch-up with three other Strand A projects. Whilst we are approaching assessment and feedback management from different directions, with TRAFFIC focusing on institutional issues and INTERACT, eAFFECT and Assessment Careers primarily using case studies, … Continue reading →

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Can we avoid marking hell?

Posted on January 17, 2013 by rachelf

Inspiring blogger Plashing Vole has published a blogpost about marking which will certainly strike a chord with many of my colleagues. It got me thinking about what the possible solutions should be. We can’t go on like this! Or at … Continue reading →

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“Run away” (a post about Marking Criteria)

Posted on December 2, 2012 by rachelf

“On second thought, let’s not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.” (King Arthur, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail) Which is rather a silly way to introduce a post on Marking Criteria and Grade Descriptors, but the … Continue reading →

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Safety in numbers?

Posted on September 19, 2012 by rachelf

Maybe it’s just me, but there is something about quantitative data that I find vaguely comforting. There are numbers here! They must measure something useful! We can do things with them, like make a bar chart or, if there are … Continue reading →

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What do you do with feedback?

Posted on September 7, 2012 by rachelf

Discussion about the purpose of feedback has a distinguished academic history (try Young 2000; Race 2001; Higgins, Hartley et al. 2002; Winter and Dye 2004; Carless 2006; Weaver 2006; Huxham 2007; Prowse, Duncan et al. 2007; Poulos and Mahony 2008; Rae … Continue reading →

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EAS12 conference, Dundee

Posted on September 3, 2012 by rachelf

The eAssessment Scotland conference in Dundee was a good way to begin the new academic year. With keynotes from David Boud, Russell Stannard and Cristina Costa, and no conference fee, the conference was very popular and there were over 300 … Continue reading →

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Students – we need to hear from you

Posted on July 25, 2012 by rachelf

As part of the TRAFFIC project, we are having a special look at coursework (assignment) guidelines and feedback at the moment, and this post is to make contact with students who would be prepared to share their views and experiences. … Continue reading →

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Continuing the Conversations

Posted on July 7, 2012 by rachelf

I mentioned in an earlier blogpost that dissemination around the baseline report was still going on and that it was a key part of our engagement strategy. This post summarises a few of the activities which have taken place in … Continue reading →

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