Not all universities or colleges are currently implementing EMA organisation-wide. Some of you have told us you are looking for guidance on how to get started with EMA on a smaller scale. In this podcast Bryony Olney from the University of Sheffield talks about how she went about organising an EMA pilot in her department. … Read more
Background and context Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) is a broad-based research-intensive institution with 20 Schools, 11 Institutes, 2 University Colleges and 8 Directorates. The student body is primarily full time undergraduates from Northern Ireland. This case study looks at work undertaken in the period 2011 to 2014 as part of the Jisc assessment and feedback … Read more
Background and context The Institute of Education (IOE) has a reputation as the UK’s premier institution for the education and training of teachers and for educational and social research. Each year over 1,000 graduates train as teachers at the IOE on PGCE courses and over 4,000 embark on higher degrees. Many students are working and … Read more
Background and context The University of Hertfordshire is a large HEI with a student community of over 27,000 including more than 2,800 international students from 85 different countries. The University prides itself on being student-focused with an established reputation for using technology to support excellence in learning, teaching and assessment. Participation in the Jisc assessment … Read more
Background and context Bedford College is a general FE College with a turnover in the region of £35 million per year it is around the 50th largest college in the UK with c.5,000 full-time and c.10,000 part-time students. It has three main campuses: Bedford town centre – general FE and vocational education, a sixth form … Read more
Background and context From 2010 to 2011 Keele University was supported by the Jisc Building Capacity programme to undertake project STAF: technology supporting assessment and feedback. The University does not specifically use the term EMA but there was a general feeling that they were not making effective use of technology to support assessment and feedback … Read more
Background and context Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is the largest campus-based undergraduate university in the UK with a total student population of more than 37,000. The university offers over 1,000 courses and qualifications, the majority of which have a strong professional bias. In 2010 MMU set up the EQAL Programme: ‘Enhancing Quality and Assessment for … Read more
Walsall College is using an integrated suite of technologies to support the whole of its assessment and feedback lifecycle: read more about its implementation here. Background and context Walsall College is a general FE College that also delivers HE level provision. Its FE level provision is purely vocational and does not include A levels. The College … Read more
A commonly reported issue is the difference in student and staff perceptions of feedback: students, as evidenced by the NSS and other research, do not feel that they receive enough useful feedback whereas staff believe that students do not make effective use of the feedback they receive (and indeed there is evidence that much feedback … Read more