Let’s talk about assessment 2023: rethinking assessment in higher education
Assessment has been on everybody’s minds recently. At our recent conference ‘Let’s Talk About Assessment 2023: Rethinking Assessment in Higher Education’ we explored live questions with peers, students, national and international experts.
Whatever your role is in assessment – whether you are a senior leader of a HEI, or are working in a professional support, teaching and learning, or quality assurance role, a student or student officer, a leading academic or have recently started designing assessment, this conference included topical discussions to inspire dynamic responses and provide useful tips on assessment.
To listen back to the views of our national and international experts and your peers, visit our conference playlist.
Key student and staff perspectives on assessment
Clodagh McGivern, Union of Students in Ireland and Sue Hackett, Quality and Qualifications Ireland (Panellists: Beverly Genockey, Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union; Bryan O’Mahony, South East Technological University Students’ Union; Luke Prendeville, National College of Art and Design Students’ Union; Saoirse Daly, Technological University Dublin (City Campus) Students’ Union; Stephen O’Riordan, University College Cork Students’ Union)
Lightning Talk: Assess for success. Good practice in assessment and feedback to promote student success
Lisa O’Regan & Dr Alison Farrell, Maynooth University
Lightning Talk: Authentic, innovative and feasible; Designing assessments for a new module
Dr Emer McGowan, Trinity College Dublin
Interrogating myths and opening doors towards more authentic assessment designs: myth busting workshop
Professor Kay Sambell, Visiting Professor, University of Sunderland and University of Cumbria and Sally Brown, Emerita Professor, Leeds Beckett University and Visiting Professor, University of Edge Hill
Framing assessment in a positive education environment
Professor Anne Hickey and Judith Gilroy, RCSI, University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Lightning Talk: Supporting authentic assessment through peer-mentorship within a community of practice
Dr Derek Dodd, Technological University Dublin
Lightning Talk: A pragmatic peer assessment framework for the inclusion of peer assessment in HE programmes
Dr Mary McGrath, Atlantic Technological University
Rethinking assessment: can we balance caution and transformation?
Dr Jan McArthur, Senior Lecturer, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University
Lightning Talk: Professional development ePortfolio: An integrated assessment approach for pharmacy technician students for learning and practice
Dr Seána Hogan and Mary Therese McGrath, Technological University Dublin
Lightning Talk: Transforming clinical skills in nurse education and assessment utilising a blended teaching and learning approach
Ruth Maher (represented by Mary Moylan), South East Technological University
Lightning Talk: Undergraduate external examining; Past, present, and is there a future?
Mary Beare Aust, South East Technological University
- Assess for success. Good practice in assessment and feedback to promote student success: Lisa O’Regan & Dr Alison Farrell, MU
- Authentic, innovative and feasible; Designing assessments for a new module: Dr Emer McGowan, TCD
- Supporting authentic assessment through peer-mentorship within a community of practice: Dr Derek Dodd, TUD
- A pragmatic peer assessment framework for the inclusion of peer assessment in HE programmes: Dr Mary McGrath, ATU
- Professional development ePortfolio: An integrated assessment approach for pharmacy technician students for learning and practice: Dr Seána Hogan and Mary Therese McGrath, TUD
- Transforming clinical skills in nurse education and assessment utilising a blended teaching and learning approach: Ruth Maher, SETU
- Re-imagining assessment and feedback for student success in ATU project outputs: Emma McDonald, ATU
- Undergraduate external examining; Past, present, and is there a future?: Mary Beare Aust, SETU
- The T-Shaped Programme Assessment: Dr C Glynn, TUS
- Signature Assessments in the Disciplines: Caitríona Ní Shé, Pauline Rooney, Nicola Byrne, Jonny Johnston, Jade Concannon & Cicely Roche, TCD
- Sharing Practice: Restorative Approaches to Plagiarism Hearings: Dr Fionnuala Brennan, SETU; Dr Ian Marder, Maynooth University; Paraic Rooney, Irish Prison Service
- Improving group assessment design to reduce plagiarism and increase student engagement in a large class: Dr Gillian McMahon, Innopharma Education and Griffith College
- Surfacing academic integrity via authentic & integrated assessment: J. Johnston, P. Rooney, C. Ní Shé, J. Concannon, N. Byrne, C. Roche, TCD
- Assessment of graduate attributes: priming for & observing elective vaccines debates: Cicely Roche, Grainne Jameson, Clair Gardiner, TCD
- Practicing student partnership in assessment: Rob Lowney, DCU
Who will get on the RAFT? Reimagining assessment & feedback together: William Carey, MTU