A brand new Assessment and Feedback in Business collaborative project is being led by Dr Patrick Baughan. Institutions that join the project will have the opportunity to work with expert colleagues at Advance HE, and with one another, in a multi-stage project focused on the enhancement of assessment and feedback practices in business schools and programmes. The project, like similar initiatives we have undertaken in the past, is ‘collaborative’ in the sense that you have the opportunity to work together, as well as with Advance HE.
Background to the new Collaborative Project
Collaborative projects are all about working together to shape best practice. High quality, timely and equitable assessment and feedback practices represent a key aspect of the student learning process. This project will offer opportunities for informing and innovating in assessment and feedback. The project is designed to maximise the value of working alongside other institutions, while benefiting from Advance HE’s expertise in assessment and feedback.
Tangible outcomes
Institutions joining benefit from a six-part project. This structure will allow for knowledge and good practice exchange as well as bespoke consultative support to develop your institution’s expertise, structures and processes. The project comprises:
- an introductory consultation
- a diagnostic survey
- an interactive online collaboration event
- two bespoke individual online workshops for each institution
- an interactive concluding collaboration event
- a summary report with outcomes.
Thus, the project features tangible benefits and outcomes both for individual institutions and shared amongst the group, including the aforementioned data-grounded diagnostic, bespoke interventions, networking with colleagues at other institutions and the provision of a recommendations report to shape future practice.
Addressing the Covid-19 pandemic
Due to the current (though, hopefully receding) pandemic, most or all of the project will be offered online. We will look at the possibility of hosting a ‘face-to-face’ closing collaborative event. In addition, there will be opportunities to consider assessment and feedback issues in conjunction with the pandemic, for example, in remote or blended learning environments. The cost to join has been set extremely competitively at £6,000 (Advance HE member institutions) or £8,000 (non-member institutions).
Project lead
The project will be led by Dr Patrick Baughan who has many years of experience in advising, teaching and researching assessment and feedback. Other Advance HE colleagues, associates, and guest speakers will also be involved.
Join up!
We expect the collaboration project to begin in December 2021, so please contact solutions@advance-he.ac.uk or view the assessment and feedback in business webpage if you are interested or would like to discuss the project further.
Patrick Baughan is a Senior Learning Advisor at Advance HE. He supports UK and international higher education institutions in all aspects of pedagogy, including learning, teaching and assessment, and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). He has held previous positions at UCL, City University (London) and the University of Leicester. His academic background lies in social psychology and sociology, but he has been working in the fields of educational development and research since 2005. He has significant leadership experience, having led programmes, institutional initiatives and multi-institution projects. His research activities and publications span areas including curriculum design, assessment, sustainability in higher education, and the development of newer researchers.