Program: pre-conference workshop program
	Making assessment support student learning: principles, practices and evaluation of impact
	Facilitator: Graham Gibbs, Director, Institute for the Advancement of University Learning University of Oxford, UK
	Appropriate assessment is one of the major challenges facing university teaching and learning. The notion that ‘assessment drives learning’ is now central to the way both individual teachers and university policy makers are grappling with assessment. This workshop will focus on the way assessment creates and supports appropriate learning activity under some circumstances, but not under others. Participants will:
		analyse case studies of spectacular improvements in student performance resulting from changes in assessment, in order to uncover the underlying principles involved;
		review the assessment practice on a course of their own in relation to a set of 11 ‘Conditions under which assessment supports student learning’
		speculate about what kind of changes to their current assessment might have the most beneficial impact on their students’ learning;
		consider how they would evaluate such an impact.
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