Students should develop an appreciation of assessment and its relationship to learning, therefore they need to gain a conceptual understanding of assessment e.g:

• terminology associated with assessment and feedback
• principles of assessment and feedback
• purposes of assessment and feedback
• types of assessment and feedback including self and peer assessment
• understand university marking criteria and differences between academic levels (4, 5 and 6)
• select and employ the necessary skills for each assessment task
• co-production of assessment with students and service users

Exercises:

1. look at past papers in groups to identify which are better and why
2. engage with the university marking criteria and ask students how they would assess each learning outcome?
3. use extracts of assignments to show the level of achievement against the university marking criteria
4. broaden digital literacy skills / other skills that are not formally assessed but implicit in successful learning.
5. follow up any Q and A assignment session with an announcement to respond to the whole cohort
6. get students from a previous cohort to talk about the assignment