Assessment-Enhancement

The workshop will investigate how staff who teach can support their students in developing an understanding of academic integrity, and avoiding misconduct. This will include:  

Facilitator sharing current perspectives and information on: 

• concerns in misconduct 
• approaches in developing student understanding of integrity and good practice
• LSE policies (including Turnitin, online proctoring) 
• LSE resources and opportunities to support students 
• Participants will contribute to initial sharing examples of common problems relating to academic integrity (e.g. student misconceptions, patterns in poor referencing or source use, unauthorised collaboration)  
• Through the course of the workshop, participants will create a plan of activities and communications, to build students’ understanding of integrity in relation to their specific courses and assessments. 

October 26, 10-11am, please sign up here.

February 15, 11-12pm, please sign up here.

May 10, 1-2pm, please sign up here.

Striking the right balance between formative and summative assessment on a course can be tricky. This can become more of a challenge when one has to consider assessment overload, diversification, and transparency. In this hour-long workshop, we will explore the more popular forms of assessment - exams, essays etc. and identify how to formulate an assessment strategy that builds on the capacity of formative and summative assessment to promote learning. During the workshop, we will:

• Use formative assessment tasks to elicit learning evidence that helps teachers and students find out where students are in their learning
• Interpret learning evidence against learning objectives and criteria, so that objectives and criteria are better clarified, shared, and understood

In small groups, we will collectively devise solutions to real-life assessment contexts. This will enable workshop participants to relate the principles, challenges, trade-offs, and perspectives to their own practice.

December 1, 12-1,30pm, please sign up here.

IThis workshop is intended for staff who teach students and are required to provide feedback, either new to the feedback process or experienced who wish to review their ways of providing feedback. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:  

• Critically assess the effectiveness of different modes of feedback (e.g. informal, formal, formative etc.); 
• Understand student expectations from feedback;  
• Explore the various ways for giving feedback and list potential educational benefits to using technology for providing feedback;  
• Engage in discussions about marking criteria and standards in relation to feedback; 
• Explore ways of encouraging students to engage and make use of their feedback; and  
• Develop awareness of LSE’s Academic code particularly around feedback.  

November 18, 12-1.30pm, please sign up here.

February 27, 11-12.30pm, please sign up here.

May 18, 10.30-12pm, please sign up here.