Case study
a team. Working together also helped with internal reporting. These sessions produced a change. Although the initial audit highlighted
internal verification to ensure all assessment more evaluative use of assessment data within that the frequency of assessment activity and
tasks and judgements were made in a timely the department course review reports and standardisation was not fully team planned,
manner, to resolve any assessment issues has developed the team’s focus on assessment as the year progressed we saw that greater co-
internally. rigour within the quality review process. operation, support and commitment emerged
To help resolve this, we looked at relating to the designing and planning of
assessment planning in more detail and used Manage self and personal knowledge assessments.
the college’s online virtual management and skills From the start, the team clearly wished to
system as a way of tracking learners against Some of the construction team were either work together to improve the rigour of the
their assessments. This was a relatively new trainee or newly qualified teachers and several assessment process across the department,
system to the college but it did help to map sessions focused on developing a greater particularly within this context of the change
out the assessment scheme in more detail knowledge base of the assessment processes. to their curriculum and assessment model.
and the team worked well together to set Also, as only a limited sense of self-evaluation The final session with the team was used to
up tracking, especially of common units existed we looked carefully at how assessment evaluate progress made using the framework
and assessments. This also supported the processes need to become more central to as a guide, but also enabled the team to
earlier planning of internal moderation and teaching-learning development. consider future work, especially as more levels
standardisation meetings. This was by focusing on assessment of the Diploma are to be introduced. DD
methodology better to understand the
Give and act on feedback: evaluating changes in the new Diploma assessment Further information
assessment progress and practice regime and also to put assessment at the The Chartered Institute of Educational
For this third element, we looked at using centre of curriculum planning. This was a Assessors (CIEA) is a professional membership
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process. Over the course of two sessions, we was key to helping the team plan and monitor and support as well as resources to those
considered previous department course review the assessment scheme effectively. involved with the assessment of the Diploma.
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