Student Agency and Engagement

ISBN-13: 9780367366711 / Miękka / 2023 / 204 str.

Tansy Jessop

Opis

This book offers fresh perspectives on the challenges of assessment and feedback in higher education. A must read for university leaders, academics, and educational developers, it asks 'what if' questions to unlock some of the systemic problems of assessment and feedback.

Spis treści

Foreword 

Acknowledgements 

 

Part I: TESTA’s research and change process 

 

Introduction: Why another book on assessment and feedback? 

Chapter 1: A research methodology for transforming students’ experience    

Chapter 2: The TESTA method: tools, techniques, and approaches 

 

Part II: Alienation and engagement 

 

Chapter 3: Alienation in assessment: Opening Pandora’s box 

Chapter 4: The wider context of alienation in higher education 

 

Part III: Engaging assessment and feedback: From analysis to practice 

 

Chapter 5. From alienation to engagement in assessment design 

Chapter 6. From alienation to engagement: Realising the promise of feedback 

Chapter 7: From alienation to engagement: Internalising standards 

Chapter 8: Reflections on TESTA’s educational change process 

 

Part IV: The future: New horizons and challenges 

 

Epilogue: TESTA in a post-pandemic world 

Appendix A: TESTA case study: BA (Hons) X: Poppletown University
Appendix B: Assessment experience questionnaire (V3.3)
Appendix C: Assessment experience questionnaire (V4.0)
Appendix D: Assessment experience questionnaire (V5.1)
Appendix E: TESTA Focus Group questions

Index

O autorze

Tansy Jessop is Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students at the University of Bristol. She leads ‘Transforming the Experience of Students through Assessment’ (TESTA), a research and change project which has challenged education leaders across the sector to re-imagine assessment and feedback from a student perspective.