Assessment and Feedback Guides
Useful quick guides and associated resources to support assessment design and feedback practice
Assessment and Feedback Practice
Guiding Principles for Assessment and Feedback
Lancaster has established a series of guiding principles for the development of effective assessment and feedback in programme design. The principles are informed by research and practice at Lancaster and the wider sector. Accompanying practical guidance, design tools and examples of practice can be located in the sections below.
Find out about the guiding principlesAssessment and Feedback Workshops
Accordion
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Assessment Design for Academic Integrity
This workshop provides an opportunity to consider approaches to designing assessment that reduces the scope for academic malpractice and plagiarism. It will introduce you to some practical approaches to apply in your own practice.
The workshop is offered on the following three dates, please book one date only:
Tuesday 26th October 2023 – In Person, 2 pm – 4 pm – to book please click link here
Thursday 8th February 2024 – Online, 10 am – 12 pm – to book please click link here
Tuesday 23rd April 2024 – Online 10 am – 12 pm – to book please click link here
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Creative Assessment
This workshop provides an opportunity to reconsider approaches to assessment and will introduce you to a range of alternative assessment to engage and challenge your students.
The workshop is repeated on the following two dates, please book one date only:
Thursday 7th September 2023 - In Person, 10 am - 12 pm – to book please click link here
Thursday 21st March 2024 – Online, 10 am – 12 pm – to book please click link here
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Flipped Classroom
The concept of the ‘flipped classroom’ has become increasingly popular in higher education, particularly as a result of the increased focus on online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. But what do we mean by a flipped classroom, how can it help teachers and learners, and how might we use it? Join us for an interactive, two-hour session to explore this innovative approach, and to share some of the ways in which it may be used to enhance the student learning experience. Throughout the session you will have opportunities to network with colleagues working in a variety of contexts and to share your ideas about ways in which you are using / might use a flipped classroom approach in your own educational practice.
The workshop is repeated on the following two dates, please book one date only:
Wednesday 1st November 2023 – Online, 2pm-4pm – to book please click link here
Wednesday 28th February 2024 – Online, 10am-12pm – to book please click link here
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Giving Effective Feedback
This session will introduce principles for feedback, share practice and consider models for effective practice.
The workshop is repeated on the following two dates, please book one date only:
Tuesday 9th January 2023 – In Person, 2 pm - 4 pm – to book please click link here
Tuesday 9th April 2024 – Online, 10am-12pm – to book please click
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GTAs: Academic Integrity
Details to follow . . .
The workshop is is scheduled for the following date:
Tuesday 6th February 2024 – In Person, 10 am – 12 pm – to book please click link here
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GTAs: Inclusive Teaching
This session is designed for Postgraduates who teach. We will be looking at how you can make your teaching more inclusive.
This workshop is scheduled to take place on the following date:
Tuesday 12th December 2023 – In Person, 2 pm – 4 pm – to book please click link here
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‘How is it for them?’: Gaining insight into the experience and learning of students
This interactive workshop considers ways of collecting feedback about teaching and students’ learning in your current context. As part of the workshop we will share and evaluate a range of ideas for collecting feedback that you might use and/or adapt for your requirements.
The workshop is repeated on the following two dates, please book one date only:
Tuesday 12th March 2023 – In Person, 2 pm - 4 pm – to book please click link here
Tuesday 30th April 2024 – Online, 10 am – 12 pm – to book please click link here
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Lecturing and Working with Large Groups
This interactive workshop considers the features of a good lecture and offers ideas for interaction to engage students. It will also look at the preparation of the ‘lecture’ and the ‘lecturer’.
This workshop will take place on the following date:
Tuesday 31st October 2023 – In Person, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm – to book please click link here
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Preparing a Team for Marking
This interactive workshop considers the benefits and challenges of preparing a team for marking. Examples of current practice at Lancaster University will be used as case studies during the session to prompt discussion and ideas for what could work for you and your team in your context.
The workshop is repeated on the following two dates, please book one date only:
Thursday 2nd November 2023 – Online, 10 am – 12 pm – to book please click link here
Tuesday 23rd January 2024 – In Person 2 pm – 4 pm – to book please click link here
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Storyboarding your module
This practical workshop will take you through the process of storyboarding – a visual plan of your module, that focuses on the constructive alignment of learning outcomes, teaching and learning activities and assessment.
The workshop is repeated on the following two dates, please book one date only:
Wednesday 6th December 2023 – In Person, 2 pm – 4 pm – to book please click link here
Thursday 18th April 2024 – Online, 10 am – 12 pm – to book please click link here
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Using Learning Sets with your Students
Group work is widely recognised as an important pedagogical approach within higher education and plays a crucial role in supporting the development of a range of skills linked to collaboration, communication, critical thinking and problem solving. In a learning set approach, students are assigned to a small group with other course participants, and may remain with this same group for the duration of their time on a course or programme. Join us for an interactive, two-hour session to explore this innovative approach, and to share some of the ways in which it may be used to enhance the student learning experience. Throughout the session you will have opportunities to network with colleagues working in a variety of contexts and to share your ideas about ways in which you are using / might use learning sets within your own educational practice.
The workshop is repeated on the following two dates, please book one date only:
Wednesday 22nd November 2023 – Online, 2 pm - 4pm – to book please click link here
Wednesday 13th March 2024 – Online, 10 am - 12 pm – to book please click link here
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Using your Development Index Planner
The workshop will take place on the following date:
Thursday 7th March 2024 – In Person, 2 pm - 4 pm – to book please click link here
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Writing Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes support teachers to communicate the programme and module objectives, and ensure alignment between the different programme elements, such as the assessment strategy and your learning and teaching approach. In this session you will consider the importance of learning outcomes and what makes a good learning outcome. You will use these principles to critique and develop your own learning outcomes.
The workshop is repeated on the following two dates, please book one date only:
Tuesday 24th October 2023 – Online, 10 am - 12 pm – to book please click link here
Tuesday 16th April 2024 – In-Person, 2 pm – 4 pm – to book please click link here
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Scholarship of Assessment
Research and insight from leading HE assessment scholars
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Assessment in Practice
Examples of effective assessment and feedback practice at Lancaster
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Assessment Methods
A quick-reference index of potential assessment methods
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Programme Assessment Strategy Review
A tool for programme teams to review assessment strategies against the guiding principles
ICE Fellowships projects exploring assessment
The Institute for Curriculum Enhancement Fellowships Scheme is seeing the development of several projects on the topic of assessment at Lancaster. These relate to assessment literacy, adopting a programme view of assessment, and exploration of authentic assessment practices.
2021-22 ICE FellowsIntegrative Assessment
Integrative assessment is assessment design that aims to combine students’ learning from multiple modules and/or levels into single assessments. This form of assesment is synoptic in nature, meaning that students are required to make connections between knowledge and learning that spans multiple modules and topics.
Learn about integrative assessment
