Assessment Festival 2024
| Date: | April 29 to May 3 - 2024 |
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| Location: | Online |
Dates: Monday 29th April – Friday 3rd May 2024
Location: Online
Back for its second year after great feedback in 2023, get your festival season started with QAA’s Assessment Festival. Fear not, there’s no need to pack your wellies or join long queues at this event – instead, we’re inviting you to join us for brunch (self-catering!) and a deep dive into all things assessment. The format of the sessions will mix lively panel debates with interactive seminars that allow for sharing insights and experiences between presenters and delegates.
We’ll start the week with a debate on the opportunities and challenges of Generative Artificial Intelligence for our approaches to assessment, setting the tone for a week of provocative discussions. Throughout the event, we'll dive deep into a range of topics including: diverse assessment cultures and traditions (competence based, programmatic and modular); compassionate assessment; postgraduate assessment practices; and the future ways we anticipate recording student achievement.
Assessment Festival promises to be a melting pot of ideas, debates and collaborative learning, offering fresh perspectives on the future of assessment in higher education. Join us for an unforgettable journey through the challenges and opportunities shaping our approach to assessment and feedback.
Who should attend?
Assessment Festival is a QAA Membership event, which will be particularly valuable for those engaged in setting and reviewing assessment policy at provider and programme level including Associate Deans, departmental teaching directors, programme leaders and module coordinators, senior leaders, quality professionals and student representatives.
This event is also available to QAA Full International Members; and are therefore encouraged to register if this is of interest to the member institution’s experienced academic and quality assurance staff, and educational leadership team.
Please note that registration closes the day before each session during the week. Please email membership@qaa.ac.uk if you would like to register after the online registration has closed.
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- Join us for brunch! Sessions start at 10am each day.
- Panel members and session contributors will be confirmed shortly
| Date and time | Session type | Session theme | Session description |
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| Monday 29 April 2024 10:00 – 11:30 | Panel debate | Generative AI | Avoid, Outrun, Embrace and Adapt – resolving the conundrum of Generative Artificial Intelligence in HE assessment practice Our panel of experts will debate and explore the conundrum of Gen AI in assessment. Expect a lively and provocative discussion between panel members on the potential innovation and the academic integrity concerns presented by students and staff use of Gen AI in assessment and feedback policies and practice. |
Tuesday | Interactive webinar | Assessment and feedback | Assessment traditions: integrative or modular? Knowledge or skills? This interactive webinar shares a range of approaches to assessment design relating to different curriculum approaches including programmatic or integrative assessment, block delivery and competence-based education. Our contributors are education practitioners drawn from across the sector who will discuss assessment design and the models of assessment feedback that emerge from each of these approaches. |
| Wednesday 1 May 2024 10:00 – 12:00 | Interactive webinar followed by a short debate | Assessment and feedback | Assessing Postgraduate Taught provision This session will explore several hot topics in postgraduate taught assessment and feedback practice such as:
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| Thursday 2 May 2024 10:00 – 12:00 | Interactive webinar | Inclusive assessment design and practice | Assessment for learning This session will focus on inclusive assessment design and practice, exploring a variety of means to achieve this including multimodal design, negotiated and compassionate assessment. |
| Friday 3 May 2024 10:00 – 11:30 | Panel debate | Measuring attainment and achievement | How will we be recording student achievement in 2030? We’ll round off our Assessment Festival with a lively, future-facing panel debate which will ask how we see degree outcomes and wider student achievements being recognised, recorded and reported. Are degree classifications here to stay? Will we see an increase in ‘ungrading’ and pass/fail approaches? And whatever happened to the Higher Education Achievement Record (HEAR)? |