Future of HE Assessment 2024
Tuesday 19th November 2024
9:30 am - 4:20pm
Virtual Conference
The Future of HE Assessment 2024 will explore the next steps in designing and delivering authentic assessment methodologies to support enhanced learning behaviours and competencies.
The Conference will:
Examine the latest innovation and research in embedding impactful authentic assessment into the curriculum
Analyse leading practice in developing assessment to drive improved learning behaviours and competencies
Discover new approaches to assessment design in the age of generative AI
Explore solutions on managing enhanced academic integrity and assessment security
Discuss how to leverage technology to support improved assessment design and implementation
Why Attend the Future of HE Assessment 2024 ?
Uncover new ideas and research on assessment design
Evaluate the effectiveness of your assessment practices
Prepare an action plan for enhancing your assessment methodologies
Confirmed Speakers
Dr Nick Watmough
Quality Enhancement & Standards Specialist
QAA
Dr Kay Hack
Principal Adviser (Learning and Teaching)
Advance HE
Dr Farwad Khaleel
Head of Global Online
Business School of Edinburgh Napier University
Professor Dilshad Sheikh
Chief Academic Officer
Arden University
Agenda
09:30 am
Chair’s Welcome Address
Professor Dilshad Sheikh
Chief Academic Officer
Arden University (CONFIRMED)
09:40 am
Supporting Enhanced Learning Behaviours and Desired Professional Competencies through Impactful Assessment Design
What are the intended learning behaviours and competencies we want students to demonstrate?
How is assessment design driving students to demonstrate desired skills?
Delivering a student-centred assessment framework to drive effective outcomes on peer and self-assessment
What are the characteristics of students thriving under a purpose-led assessment model?
Dr Kay Hack
Principal Adviser (Learning and Teaching)
Advance HE (CONFIRMED)
10:10 am
Assessment Design in the Age of Generative AI: How to Evolve
How do we embrace the opportunities of generative AI whilst maintaining academic integrity?
How does academic writing, submission processes and assessment design need to change?
The move to synoptic assessment that incorporates AI tools
Developing authentic assessment approaches based on real-life settings and foundational skills
Leveraging assessment design to improve AI literacy
Building clear policies around acceptable use and expectations in the assessment process
How do we support equity and accessibility as students use third party AI tools?
Dr Nick Watmough
Quality Enhancement & Standards Specialist
QAA (CONFIRMED)
10:30 am
Break and Networking
10:50 am
Where Are We on Inclusive Assessment Language?
Supporting students to have improved understanding and confidence on assessment terminology
Understanding causes of student anxiety and barriers to engagement when engaging with assessment processes
What does an accessible language structure look like?
Addressing common queries, complaints and inconsistencies faced during assessment processes
What progress has been made on inclusive dialogue and how can course leaders deliver an approach to continuous improvement?
Dr Cathy Minett-Smith
Dean of Learning and Teaching, Faculty of Business and Law
UWE Bristol (CONFIRMED)
11:20 am
Designing a Model for Optionality in Assessment
What does optionality look like in practice? Insights from the QAA Collaborative Enhancement Project
What are the views of student and staff on feasibility, practicality and utility?
Exploring existing pockets of innovation on optionality and the process in designing and implementing these approaches
Building a toolkit for the sector in embedding optionality into curricula
What could optionality mean for administrative burden, inclusion, student engagement and perceptions on fairness?
Professor Gabrielle Finn
Vice-Dean for Teaching, Learning and Students
University of Manchester (CONFIRMED)
11:50 am
A Shift from Evaluative Feedback: Learning from Consequential Feedback
Shifting attention from the typical notion of evaluative feedback to learning from consequential feedback
Understanding what consequential feedback looks like in practice and how it can support effective authentic assessment
How can we notice and interpret the consequences of a learner's action through simulations using authentic audiences, objects, processes and tools of the profession?
Rethinking what counts as feedback for authentic assessment and how can we design assessment mechanisms around this neglected feedback information?
Professor Kathleen M Quinlan
Professor of Higher Education and Director Centre for the Study of Higher Education
University of Kent (CONFIRMED)
12:20 pm
Break and Networking
1:00 pm
Developing the Next Generation of Digital Assessment Tools: What Next on Utility?
Choosing appropriate digital assessment tools for your assessment processes
What the proliferation of generative AI means for how we use assessment technologies
How are assessment tools evolving and how can course leaders leverage the next generation of technologies?
What do staff and students expect from assessment tools and how do we address gaps in demand?
What students are saying on the learning experience and how digital tools can support approaches to authentic assessment
Laura Milne
Head of Digital Education
University of Chester (CONFIRMED)
David Kennedy
Dean of Digital Education
Newcastle University (CONFIRMED)
Farzana Latif
Head of Digital Education Systems
University of Leeds (CONFIRMED)
1:50 pm
Preparing Students for Expectations on AI Usage Prior to Assessment
Providing resources to students to understand which tools are both permissible and effective to use in support of their assessments
What ways can we provide opportunities for students to critically engage with AI ahead of their assessment?
How do we build resources to mitigate student worries and concerns over AI and academic misconduct?
Is there a standard toolkit all departments can use to build student confidence/awareness of AI ahead of assessments?
Matt Carl
Head of Library Digital Education
The University of Law (CONFIRMED)
2:10 pm
Break and Networking
2:30 pm
The Next Steps in Delivering High Impact Authentic Assessment
This panel session will mark a key checkpoint in exploring the progress made on authentic assessment, how practices are evolving and how authenticity can be enhanced further in assessment design. The session will consider:
Collaborating with students to drive resonance and meaning to assessment processes
Embedding wider stakeholders into assessment design to build a wider dialogue on feedback and review
Building students’ agency and confidence in actively participating in a discipline
New approaches to authentic assessment in practice and the pedagogical underpinning
Professor Kate Strudwick
Dean of Teaching and Learning
University of Lincoln (CONFIRMED)
Professor Sam Elkington
Professor of Learning & Teaching
Teesside University (CONFIRMED)
Dr Michelle Hawkins
Director of Learning, Teaching and Assessment -Faculty of Health, Medicine and Social Care
Anglia Ruskin University (CONFIRMED)
3:20 pm
A New Age for Academic Integrity? Rethinking Assessment Security
What counts as misconduct in the age of AI and how do we define the parameters?
Recognising the barriers to effective AI detection and exploring how we can embrace AI in the assessment process
How should assessment design be reimagined to support enhanced resilience against misconduct?
Dr Farwad Khaleel
Head of Global Online
Business School of Edinburgh Napier University (CONFIRMED)
3:40 pm
Designing Assessment for Flexibility and Reasonable Adjustments
Dr Emma Kennedy
Associate Professor in HE Learning and Teaching
University of Greenwich (CONFIRMED)
4:00 pm
Leading Authentic Assessment in Small and Specialist Institutions
Dr Kate Wilkinson
Head of Teaching & Learning
Hartpury University (CONFIRMED)
4:20 pm
Action Points for Your Team and Conference Close
*Programme subject to change
Audience
This event is designed for all those involved in teaching and assessment research, design and delivery across the higher education sector. Those in attendance will include:
Directors of Assessment
Director of Learning and Teaching
Heads of Schools
Heads of Programmes and Assessment
Heads of Assessment Governance
Head of Quality Assurance
Educational Developers
Assessment Managers
Assessment Support Leads
Faculty Assessment Managers
Assessment Services Managers
Senior Lecturers
Lecturers
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