Project Title (and FASTECH Feedback and Assessment for Students with acronym) Technology September 2012 August 2014 Start Date End Date Lead Institution Bath Spa University Partner Institutions University of Winchester Project Director Professor Paul Hyland Project Manager & Dr Tansy Jessop contact details Project website Project blog/Twitter ID @FASTECH_UK Design Studio home page w/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=Bath%20Spa%20 and%20Winchester%20FASTECH Programme Name Strand A: Assessment and Feedback Programme Manager Lisa Gray Summary FASTECH (Feedback and Assessment for Students with Technology) is a research and development project working on 15 undergraduate degree programmes at Bath Spa University and the University of is to work Winchester. FASTECH’s first principle with programme team members, using baseline evidence, to develop technology strategies to address assessment and feedback challenges. The project uses a range of technology strategies, in response to evidence and negotiation with lecturers and student fellows on the programmes. A key element of the FASTECH project is the use of paid Student Fellows to act as change agents, co-developers and on the project. Programme evidence about assessment and feedback is drawn from baseline data collected through the HEA-funded TESTA National Teaching Fellowship Project, which is an evidence-based project leading to changes in programme assessment (). TESTA is constructed around a set of assessment principles which have proven value in helping students to learn from assessment. These principles inform and development agenda, deriving from FASTECH’s research conditions to improve student learning identified by Graham Gibbs through a scale review of disciplinary literature (Gibbs and Simpson 2004). The assessment challenges which FASTECH has addressed through technology interventions are linked to assessment principles, and are as follows: Gibbs’ Student effort not being distributed across weeks and modules;
Project Title (and acronym) FASTECH Feedback and Assessment for Students with Technology Start Date September 2012 End Date August 2014 Lead Institution Bath Spa University Partner Institutions University of Winchester Project Director Professor Paul Hyland Project Manager & contact details Dr Tansy Jessop Project website Project blog/Twitter ID @FASTECH_UK Design Studio home page w/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=Bath%20Spa%20 and%20Winchester%20FASTECH Programme Name Strand A: Assessment and Feedback Programme Manager Lisa Gray Summary FASTECH (Feedback and Assessment for Students with Technology) is a research and development project working on 15 undergraduate degree programmes at Bath Spa University and the University of Winchester. FASTECH’s first principle is to work with programme team members, using baseline evidence, to develop technology strategies to address assessment and feedback challenges. The project uses a of technology strategies, in response to evidence and negotiation with lecturers and student fellows on the programmes. A key element of the FASTECH project is the use of paid Student Fellows to act as change agents, co-developers and on the project. Programme evidence about assessment and feedback is drawn from baseline data collected through the HEA-funded TESTA National Teaching Fellowship Project, which is an evidence-based project leading to changes in programme assessment (). TESTA is constructed around a set of assessment principles which have proven value in helping students to learn from assessment. These principles inform FASTECH’s research and development agenda, deriving from conditions to improve student learning identified by Graham Gibbs through a review of disciplinary literature (Gibbs and Simpson 2004). The assessment challenges which FASTECH has addressed through technology interventions are linked to Gibbs’ assessment principles, and are as follows: Student effort not being distributed across weeks and modules; range scale
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