Project Details:
Making Assessment Count Evaluation
This work will assess the impact of the Making Assessment Count (MAC) process within institutions on student and staff experience, paying careful attention to the effects on student performance and student and staff satisfaction in relation to quality enhancement, workloads and efficiency. Evaluating across six institutions will generate a rich collection of outputs that together will disseminate to the sector how MAC can work for different subject areas and become embedded into institutional strategy.
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Funding period:September 2011 to August 2013
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Organisations: Cardiff Metropolitan University City University London University of Bedfordshire University of Greenwich University of Reading University of Westminster |
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| eReflect |
Management system for authoring and delivering online self-review questionnaires and processing responses to generation additional feedback reports. Was used in Westminster, which is now moving to Feedback+ because of cloud integration issues.
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| Moodle |
Being used by City University London to deliver an adapted form of the MAC process. Uses the Moodle Quiz, Scheduler, HTML block and Gradebook tools.
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| Cloudworks |
To support dissemination and community building.
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| BlackBoard |
Reading University using to deliver MAC process. Testing tool despite limitations of rubric for institutional buy in.
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| FeedbackPlus |
Newly developed, eReflect-like tool that works better in a cloud environment
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| Pebblepad |
Used at Bedfordshire to administer the MAC process. Makes use of the integration with BB, but there are some ID management issues
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Comments:
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-28 14:37:03
Not sure if tool needs further development but not sure if right way forward - evaluation may indicate that it does, if so would be useful to know where partnerships could be found. Users want it in VLE, pretty adamant about it - don't have time to engage with another system, want single signon, institutional factors also.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-28 14:32:10
Benefits realisation project in between MAC and MACE: Making Assessment Count Consortium. http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/page/33943261/Making-Assessment-Count Plus toolkit in design studio derived from MAC http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/page/44490611/Making%20Assessment%20Count%20Toolkit
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-28 14:28:03
Emphasis on the concept of getting students to reflect on their feedback, not the specific eReflect tool.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-28 14:24:57
Moodle can be adapted by users if enough resource from institutional buy in. BlackBoard much more complex. IMS LTI may be a potential method. Need to evaluate if eReflect is capable of being something used so extensively and for full life of a degree course - and exportability, etc, effectively becoming a mini eportfolio system.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-28 14:20:22
Core of evaluation process is evaluation for sustainability. Each institution will be doing own in house evaluations, but MAC overview will be looking at how to get institutions involved for sustainability for making assessment count. Incorporation within VLEs.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-28 14:16:15
Outputs will be reports, etc:- external consultant doing majority of evaluation, one output will be guidance to institutions as to how to go about embedding MAC within their institutions.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-17 13:56:42
Will use JISC Design Studio and Cloudworks to support dissemination and community building.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-17 13:52:58
Project will generate a set of case studies and guides covering a range of implementations of the MAC process in different subject areas and institutional contexts.
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Maintainer: Gunter Saunders Programme-Manager: Lisa Gray