Assessment of students occupies a great deal of staff and student time and is often a contentious area frequently giving rise to complaints from students.
Two areas in particular give rise to complaints these being the arrangement of assessment in the course and the timing amount or quality of the feedback available after the assessment has been returned. Through a series of structured questions this Assessment Audit Tool encourages individuals or course teams to re-appraise the quality of the assessment procedures on their modules and to think reflectively about how they could be improved. The Assessment Audit has been trialled extensively in more than a dozen universities for modules in preclinical medical courses or biological or biomedical science degrees but is readily applicable to other disciplines.
