The UCL Digital Assessment Team were on hand at the Education conference to help with assessment queries. They facilitated a marketplace stand encouraging attendees to ‘Design alternative assessments’. UCL staff were encouraged to read the alternative assessments poster and be inspired by the alternative assessments presentation, then rethink their existing assessments.
After discussions with the Digital Assessment Team attendees were invited to add their ‘assessment pledge’ to the assessment tree. Pledges covered many different areas including:
- authentic assessment approaches – create a podcast assessment; use multiple data-sources; plan a presentation pitch group work; self-review assessment; portfolio with feedback in several stages
- collaborative assessment – peer review of clinical practice; feedback on the first draft of assignment; group activity; peer assessment but in a principled way
- inclusive design – add a multimodal portfolio option – not just written; dialogues to replace presentations
- marking and feedback ideas – use a rubric; transform feedback from supervisors, perhaps a contract between students and supervisors;
- more creative ideas – engage students’ emotions; create permission to fail assessments; design assessment before course design; AR/VR assessment; consider how to decouple grades
