The Assessment Experience – May '23: Staff and Student Perspectives
In this course you'll explore staff and student assessment experiences and be introduced to the concept of assessment literacy.
Duration
2 weeksWeekly study
8 hours
The Assessment Experience – May '23: Staff and Student Perspectives
In this short course, you will reflect on your own assessment experience and gain further insights into some of the challenges students face in their assessment journey in higher education.
You will also explore the concept of assessment literacy and look at examples of how and what you can do to develop assessment literacy in partnership with students.
What topics will you cover?
- Tutor and student experiences of assessment
- Assessment literacy and what it means to be assessment literate
- Developing students and staff assessment literacy over the assessment journey
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Develop further insights into your and your students’ experiences of assessment
- Evaluate what assessment literacy is and explore different approaches in developing students’ assessment literacy
- Describe your plans for developing students’ assessment literacy
Who is the course for?
Colleagues at Coventry University and CU Group who teach and/or support student learning in Higher Education.
Who developed the course?
Coventry University
Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.
Established
1992Location
Coventry
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