Based on the assessment moderation task (Task G) you undertook with your Experienced Educator, reflect on your learning from the activity

Assignment 3A: Assessment & Feedback for Learning Case Study (500 words)

Contributes to Associate Fellowship Descriptors D1.i, D1.ii, D1.iii, D1.iv, D1.v, D1.vi with particular reference to A3

UK PSF: A3, K1, K2, V1, V2, V3

The brief 

You should use the Ulster Principles for Assessment and Feedback for Learning to inform this assignment.

(https://web.archive.org/web/20170701012146/http:/ee.ulster.ac.uk/assessment_and_feedback/)

Choose one assessment approach or feedback technique you use – this may be formative or summative -  and produce a brief case study exploring and critically reviewing how you came to use the approach and why you think it is successful in supporting and engaging students in their learning.

Remember to not only give detail about the situation but also explain how and why you worked with the students in that manner. Draw on your reading of assessment and feedback to support the decisions you have made to try and ensure your practice is effective.

You should also draw from relevant tasks to underpin your narrative. Evaluative feedback you have gathered may also be useful in supporting your knowledge of how effective your approach is.

Further guidance

You should write your Case Study in the first person. Please cite sources of professional and/ or pedagogic knowledge that have informed your practice throughout. A useful framework to follow can be found in the diagram below. You should use this framework in conjunction with the case study template and prompt questions we have included overleaf.

N.B. The assessment task used for this case study cannot be the same task as you used in the moderation exercise with your EE (task G)

Assignment 3B: Reflection on your moderation activity (Task G) (300 words)

Contributes to Associate Fellowship Descriptors D1.i, D1.ii, D1.iii, D1.iv, D1.v, D1.vi with particular reference to A3

UK PSF: A3, K1, K2, V1, V2, V3

The brief

Based on the assessment moderation task (Task G) you undertook with your Experienced Educator, reflect on your learning from the activity. This might include consideration of how well the assignment fits with the learning you were aiming to assesssd the clarity of the guidance and marking criteria your confidence in making decisions about marks your confidence in providing feedback for students.

Further guidance 

You should write your Case Study in the first person. Please cite sources of professional and/ or pedagogic knowledge that have informed your practice throughout.

This is relatively short assignment and you should focus on the learning that you gained from the experience rather than giving details of the logistics of the moderation activity. To help you here you should focus on the comments that your Experienced Educator made about your practice and the reflective notes that you made in response to these in Task G.

Assignment 4: Overall reflection and professional development plan (500 words)

You should use your completed UKPSF self-mapping (Task H) to help you complete this assignment.

Review critically your experience over the module by addressing the following:

What have you learned:

About your students?

About your teaching or your role as an HE educator?

About teaching and learning more generally?

How do you identify what is working in your practice and consider how to enhance it?

Has the module resulted in any changes in your thinking?

About your students?

About your teaching or your role as an HE educator?

About teaching and learning more generally?

How have you applied this to your own practice?

What changes will you make as a result of your experiences?

What areas of your practice/ experience would you prioritise for further development?

How do you plan to achieve this in the short or medium term?

What sort of educator would you like to become?