e-Assessment in Wales
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This project investigated the issues involved in delivering e-assessment across franchise courses, in other words Higher Education level programmes, accredited by a host HEI (in this case, the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff) but actually delivered within a partner further education college.
Executive Summary
The project captured and investigated the experiences of the project’s Further Education (FE) partners between March 2007 and March 2009. Project members worked with a range of institutional staff, both within the host Higher Education Institution and in the partner Further Education Colleges, including teachers, lecturers, support staff, technicians, managers and students.
What we did
- Identified good and poor practice in terms of the delivery of e-assessment across a franchised course
- Investigated and isolated factors hindering the effective delivery of e-assessment across a franchised course
- Investigated and isolated factors supporting the effective delivery of e-assessment across a franchised course
- Investigated the pedagogic needs and requirements from the FE perspective
- Generated both formative and summative assessments based on the needs of the FE cohort
- Investigated and evaluated the student learning experience
What we found
Crucially, the Project found that any collaborative endeavour between HE and FE (in this case the delivery of a franchised course), particularly in the area of e-learning, will only be as strong and robust as the underlying policies and procedures that underpin such a collaboration.
Allied to this, the Project found that significant differences could exist between the pedagogical methods and assumptions within HE and FE. A mismatch was often discovered between the need and delivery of formative and summative assessment across HE and FE. When allied to administrative and technical disparities, the Project has confirmed that a HE / FE divide is not illusory, and has gone some way to investigate the nature of such a phenomenon within the domain of e-assessment.
This report summarises the key findings and recommendations of the Project. Our primary output is the project website which hosts all of the reports, profiles, presentations and summaries produced by the Project.
The report expands on 4 key areas
- The project itself, including a detailed account of how it progressed over its two-year lifecycle
- Advice and recommendations for distribution across the HE and FE sectors
- Outputs, including reports, case studies and other relevant findings
- Sustainability of project and outcomes, continuity of web presence, and possible areas for future investigation