Assessment and feedback have a significant and powerful impact on the lives of both students and staff.  In this keynote, Professors Sally Brown and Kay Sambell will discuss the importance of universities recognising that assessment practices and processes can have a substantial positive or negative impact on students, depending on how they are directed, and that staff engaging in designing and conducting assessments need appropriate approaches that lead to effective learning, aligning with the Assessment for Learning movement to which both have contributed. 

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Building on the extensive resources Kay and Sally have created to support staff during pandemic times, (see https://sally-brown.net/kay-sambell-and-sally-browncovid-19-assessment-collection/), the keynote will review how authenticity in assessment can enhance students’ capabilities, preparing them for employability, active citizenship and a stronger sense of personhood, whilst also being manageable for staff.  In this session participants will have opportunities to:

• Review how authentic assignments can be systematically and efficiently designed to foster student engagement, belonging and commitment;  

• Consider how changes can be made incrementally to improve the quality of learning opportunities afforded by assessment activities;  

• Examine a practical six-stage approach to designing authentic and constructively aligned assessment activities;  

• Reflect on how these kinds of approaches can be implemented at UEL.