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Assessing Competence Based Programmes and Modules     The methods of assessment and ways of giving feedback to students are key parts of the design of your programme. There should be a clear link between how students are assessed and taught....

Encouraging students to use feedback. Academic staff frequently express concern that they have spent a lot of time producing written feedback about students’ assessment submissions, but that their students seem to either not read it, or to ignore it.   Students’...

Assessment feedback  This primer explains the rationale for  assessment feedback needing to be TAFFSDBoEC – Timely Actionable Forward-Facing Supportive Developmental Based on Evidencing Competence. It is aimed at anyone involved in the design and use of assessment at university.  How...

Short primer – the ‘hidden curriculum’   The term ‘hidden curriculum’ was first suggested in 1968, in reference to schools; frequently there were unwritten rules and institutional expectations that some learners were unaware of. These could negatively impact their achievement. In...