We were approached by Federica Masieri (Dept STH), about how we might help them implement a project to improve students awareness of assessment marking criteria.
The background was members of the Department had identified this as a potential issues, and prioritised it within annual plan.
There were a number of requirements;
- knowledge transfer around the assessment marking criteria, and support routes
- something which would engage and develop students
- monitor if students had used it
- a solution which could be rolled out across all their modules
The outcome was to develop the activities in LearnUCS around a quiz they'd previously mocked up. The quiz would be feedback intensive. So it would contain, "yes / no questions", and the feedback would contain all the learning materials. The quiz would also allow staff to be able to monitor students activity.
In the first instance we've wrapped a number of resources around the quiz. So, a new navigation item has been added. This area contains, welcome message and diagnostic quiz. On completion of the quiz, a number of additional resources were released depending on their performance (used the adaptive release feature). These provided students with more directed support (on top of the quiz feedback). The new items included information on how Learning Services could support the student through understanding marking criteria.
Through the copy function within LearnUCS the resource is easily rolled out across other LearnUCS modules.
The next steps include; creating some video stories from students and staff around interpreting and understanding the assessment marking criteria, and enhancing the "where next" from Learning Services to include connections with our Assignment Toolkit, and workshops programme.
Federica and others within the Department will be evaluating the success of the pilot and disseminating the outcomes through a range of channels.
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