Overview of Assessment Enhancement Theme
Learning, teaching and assessment are all essential parts of higher education and all students are assessed formally or informally during their time at university.
But it isn't something either learners or teachers really enjoy, or, probably do very well and new approaches to assessment that enhance student learning need developing.
The main theme of our work during 2003-04 was improving efficiency and effectiveness.*
The work of the Assessment Enhancement Theme was led by the Assessment Steering Committee, whose membership was drawn from across the Scottish higher education sector.
The main activities of the committee focussed upon running, in consultation with the Scottish higher education sector, a very successful series of 8 assessment workshops and undertaking some ground-breaking work on considering the Honours degree classification system.
Further details of all these events, activities and associated publications are available in the activities section.
Professor Simon van Heyningen, (University of Edinburgh) Chair of the Steering Committee set out the main areas for investigation and development in a statement issued at the launch of the initiative in Autumn 2003.
*Efficiency - Efficient assessment that does not take up a overly burdensome amount of time for students or staff.
*Effectiveness - Effective assessment produces a result that is informative, valid, just and robust.
