TILT Course Leader Conference 2019 - Fairness in Assessment: Design and Practice

TILT Course Leader Conference 2019: Fairness in Assessment: Design and Practice

Tuesday 9 April 2019, Teaching and Learning Building, Clifton Campus

8.45-9.15

Registration: Lecture Theatre 4

9.15-9.45

Welcome by Professor Eunice Simmons, Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Lecture Theatre 3

9.45-

10.15

Address by Professor Edward Peck, Vice-Chancellor, followed by a Q&A

Lecture Theatre 3

10.20-10.50

TLP04:

The future of assessment is personal.

Success for All colleagues from across NTU

TLP05:

Flexible Assessment: Process and Product.

Rachel Challen and Marcus Elliott from the TILT Flexible and Online Learning group

TLP06:

Alternative assessment formats in sustainability education: a fair trade?

Associate Professor Petra Molthan-Hill (Green Academy)

TLP07: Node chairs

Student improvement or grade inflation? NTU’s position and what you can do to support it.

Dr Susannah Lamb (CADQ)

TLP011:

Co-creating and co-designing course content and assessment with students.

How to help students think about course design and assessment: tools and questions.

Hannah Charlton and Lucy Judd (CenSCE) with Rebecca Rock (CADQ)

10.55-

11.25

Formative assessment: a diagnostic tool for graduate attributes.

Dr Andy Gritt (AAH)

Research informed teaching as a framework for first year transition into university life and peer assessment in non- outcome based learning.

Dr Andy Pepper (AAD)

Becoming an external examiner: the Degree Standards Project.

Dr Erica J Morris (Advance HE)

11.30-12.00

TLP04:

Using IT to support effective run-time assessment judgments.

Associate Professor Andy Grayson (SSS) and Dr Jessica Dale (SST)

TLP05:

Babel or Babble?: How fair is the use of Google Translate by international students in assessments and learning?

Walter Nowlan (Nottingham Language Centre) and Joanne Marsden (NTIC)

TLP06:

The effective use of Poor Academic Practice (PAP) warnings.

Dr Mark Sergeant (SSS); Lynette Wall and Emily Bostock (Academic Registry)

TLP07: Node chairs

Teaching & assessing oral skills to improve employability.

Jayne Dixon (NLS)

TLP011:

Bringing students to the centre of developing and delivering assessment and feedback.

Dr Michael Loughlin (SST)

12.05

12.35

How can the use of varied exemplars help Direct Entrant students better understand assessment guidelines and criteria?

Dr Mustafa Sarkar (SST)

Trouble at mill: pedagogic responses to the threat from custom essay writing services.

Martin Seviour (Nottingham Language Centre)

Supporting social work students with additional needs when on placement.

Dr Barry Fearnley (SSS)

Responding to student feedback around feedback: The role of a development group.

Paul Blakeman, Peter Benbow and Emma Reith-Hall (SSS)

12.40-13.30

Lunch: Lecture Theatre 4

13.35-14.30

Keynote Introduction: Jane McNeil, Executive Dean of Learning and Teaching

Keynote Address: Dr Naomi Winstone, Head of the Department of Higher Education, University of Surrey:

‘Moving feedback forwards in higher education’

Lecture Theatre 3

14.35-16.00

Networking: Lecture Theatre 4

Including an interactive, informal listening session to seek information and share reflections around the NTU2025 strategy discussions.