Summative assessment is often the main element of teaching that you can make little change to; this may be exams, practical work or submitted projects. assessments and submitted project work. This is ultimately what students are striving for and it will determine their final grades.
For some of you, there may be opportunities for some levels of creativity within the summative assessments that you set. For the rest of you, support and revision along the way will ensure your students are ready.
Online submission
The Access department used to have to ensure that all student work was printed and placed in a folder. Since conversations took place with the external moderators, they are now able to share Google folders with the moderators instead. This has lead to less work, and far lower printing costs for the department and their students.
Project Based Learning
The BITE team have explored their assessments and can now successfully connect them to project based learning that students will undertake over time. For the IT students, this will mean involvement with the e-learning team and B-100 to support staff and students to access technology. For others, this will mean placements within businesses. The Health and Social Care are working towards completing a similar approach with their students.
The use of Google can dramatically improve submission rates, monitoring and feedback. Many departments are already using it successfully. Look out for Pass It On sessions coming soon, that will seek to develop your knowledge and skills in relating to use of Google for assessment.
If your assessments don't have to be submitted in a written format, could you explore alternatives via use of video, voice recordings or poster presentations? If you think this may be the case, please come along to our technology drop-ins to explore possible options.
Summative Assessment Methods