Project Details:
Evaluating the Benefits of Electronic Assessment
EBEAM will evaluate the use of Turnitin and GradeMark for Electronic Assessment Management (EAM) at the University of Huddersfield across large and complex provision. The evaluation will seek to uncover and disseminate findings that will lead to improved models of EAM across the UK Higher and Further Education sectors.
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Funding period:September 2011 to February 2013
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Organisations: iParadigms Europe University of Huddersfield |
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| Turnitin |
Originality checking - not allowed to use before submission but students on some courses (education) allowed to see originality reports, some learning materials developed around it. Used as a complete assessment management system.
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| GradeMark |
Commercial online marking product within Turnitin
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| Turnitin eRater |
Automated writing technique evaluation tool within turnitin
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| QuickMark |
within Turnitin
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| yammer |
Dissemination
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Dissemination
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| MS Office Communicator |
Dissemination
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Dissemination - collaboration, joint authorship
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| EVS |
Developing students' knowledge of assessment criteria - peer evaluation
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| Blackboard 9.1 | |
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1000 students - FB page to update on deadlines etc
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| PeerMark |
Newly introduced
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| Sharepoint |
Version control, sharing stable versions
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| Jing |
screencapture, staff development tool, verbal feedback potentially
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| Camtasia |
screencapture, staff development tool
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| Elluminate |
webinars
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| Blackboard Analytics |
One potential analytics tool that is being looked at
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| Desire2Learn Analytics |
Another analytics tool that's being considered
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Comments:
Posted by Wilbert at 2012-06-01 23:16:16
The project has taken on a very strong assessment analytics slant. Multiple, rich datasets have been amassed, some going back some years, and are being merged and analysed. The whole analytics topic has senior buy-in in the institution, and is likely being pursued at scale. There are also some significant underpinning pedagogic models for assessment analytics.
Posted by rowin at 2011-12-09 09:27:35
iTeam strand A project - dashboard looks relevant.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-29 11:52:21
Real interest from institutions, pressure from students as customers.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-29 11:50:46
Sabbatical in Australia next term - contact and engagement with a large number of institutions, sharing practice and ideas.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-29 11:49:27
Emphasis and focus on administrative processes - change management - changes in academic and professional practice need to be supported by changes to administration and institutional mindset and accommodation. Not just replicating paper-based systems but embracing technology. Scalability demonstrated by 1k plus student courses with several assignments.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-29 11:44:46
Next steps - dashboard, discussions with Registry on data warehousing, have institutional and management engagement - clear impact on results and retention from work to date.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-29 11:30:17
Webinars, screencasts - aimed at key stakeholders, lot of dissemination going on. Toolkits - around supporting student needs, staff development - 80 tutors, 1000 students, v particular kinds of staff development needed, real transparency around assessment and feedback - so developing tech skills to use software plus teaching skills and consistency - print guides, video, strong network, twitter, etc, strong ongoing dialogue. Toolkits will be practical, hands on - how to design support into a module. Plus dissemination ideas for key findings. Plagiarism conference.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-29 11:18:02
Business agility. Using existing systems, Turnitin, VLEs, MS Office etc with adaptions to meet specific needs, not building yet more tools.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-29 11:15:51
Project generating a huge amount of data -> diagnose student skills issues at individual and cohort level much faster and easier than paper. Instant extremely detailed feedback - very well received by students, really made an impact on students. Can harvest data from marking and provide to students, skill support, disability support, tutors... Collating data across 20 modules dealing with the same issue.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-29 11:06:57
Conversations with a lot of other A&F projects.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-29 11:04:31
Twitter feed #jiscebeam - twitter widget - embed code by search term.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-29 11:01:54
Part of a large (30 college) consortium for PG delivery - delivering this process across a full year's course.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-29 11:00:47
Dissemination has already been underway for at least a year, lot of consultancy work with various institutions - conversations with a lot of other institutions, private colleges, specialist colleges, universities, user group events.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-18 09:36:58
Toolkits will be made available via the JISC Design Studio.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-18 09:36:00
Developing 'EAM innovation maps'.
Posted by rowin at 2011-11-18 09:32:02
Also builds on University of Glamorgan's 'Turnitin or Turn it off?' pilot project.
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