​With the start of the new academic year come the inevitable beginnings of the periodic review process, with the validation and re-valida...

It would have been a stretch of the imagination in July 2009 to think that TESTA, a National Teaching Fellowship Project funded by the Higher Education Academy for three years, would still be going...

This article examines how undergraduate students on arts and humanities courses experience assessment and feedback. The research uses a detailed audit, a specially devised questionnaire (the Assess...

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This article explores the relationship between the lack of visible attention to formative assessment in degree specifications and its marginalization in practice. Degree specification documents form...

This paper explores reasons for the expansion of a funded Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship project, ‘Transforming the Experience of Students through Assessment’ (TESTA). In 2009,...

The BA (Hons) Primary Education degree is a large, complex programme, recruiting about 200 students in each year of a four year degree. It also has a three year accelerated route. The degree in...

This article outlines a methodology for characterising features of programme-level assessment environments so that the relationship between features of the assessment environment and students’...

Much evaluation of teaching focuses on what teachers do in class. This article focuses on the evaluation of assessment arrangements and the way they affect student learning out of class. It is...