Thank you to all of those who attended this event. For those of you interested in more information, we will have a dedicated section on assessment on this blog soon. Meanwhile, please feel free to contact us (lti.support@lse.ac.uk) if you have any questions, comments or would simply like to get in touch!

LTI Show & Tell on Assessment with Technology 

12:00 – 12:20 Sandwich lunch available
LTI team available for informal discussions
12:20 – 12:25 Welcome and introductions
Each presentation will be followed by 1-2 short questions.
12:25 – 13.15 Innovating assessment: LSE100 seek alternatives to exams, LSE
Prof George Gaskell, LSE100 Director
Prof George Gaskell will explain the pedagogical rationale for moving away from exams. LSE100 is exploring alternative methods of summative assessment that better evaluate students’ learning and will improve student feedback.Using peer-assessment software to assess group presentations, LSE
Dr Irini Papanicolas, Social Policy / LSE Health
Dr Irini Papanicolas used WebPA, a peer assessment tool, to assess student presentations on the course “Measuring Health System Performance” in Lent term 2014. Irini will explain her educational reasons for using peer assessment, describe her experiences in using the tool, and describe plans for further peer assessment activity using an alternative tool, Teammates.Peer learning and E-assessments: A Case study on PeerWise, UCL
Kevin Tang, Sam Green & Stefanie Anyadi, UCL
In this talk, we will share our experience of implementing an online peer-learning system, Peerwise, at UCL. The Peerwise’s e-assessment is a function of students’ contributions to the system (question creations, answering and commenting), assessed by both the system and the peers. Our results suggest that e-assessment reflects the students’ module performance well, but only if the students are grouped by mixed ability. This highlights the importance of system-external preparation and supervision, and the need for establishing good practices of how a peer learning system with an e-assessment focus should be integrated and deployed.Serious Games for Assessment Purposes in Higher Education, University of Westminster (Law specific)
Dr Vassiliki Bouki, Principal Lecturer, University of Westminster
The application that will be presented (‘Serious Games @ Westminster – Law of Murder’) is an alternative assessment online tool with gamified elements for Law students. It enhances understanding of key concepts, along with the development of strategic thinking, communication skills and cognitive abilities. Furthermore it expands creativity as it is not based merely on recognition – as several traditional online approaches are.
13.15 – 13.30 Quo Vadis? Assessment with Technology, LTI
Athina Chatzigavriil & Kris Roger, Learning Technologists, LTI
LTI will give a brief update of the work we are undertaking around assessment with technology.
13.30 – 13.40 Learning pedagogies: opportunities for individual and group feedback , LSE
Dr Sunil Kumar, Lecturer in Social Policy & Dean of Graduate Studies
Dr Sunil Kumar will report on his 3-year pilot on using short essay-type questions to assess understanding of the course as a whole. Sunil provided anonymised individual and group feedback to students. The pilots were backed up by focus groups and a report of findings is available.
13.40-13.45 Closing Remarks