This session focused on an HEA change academy project on assessment and feedback. The project has initially focused on students issues about the lack of clarity around assessment, feedback being variable and inconsistent practice.

The project aimed to have an assessment resource for all which included assessment types, learning outcomes that could be met with assessments and assessment criteria. Templates that could be used were being developed as well. However the project did have problems with both staff and student engagement due to workload and meetings outside of term time. There was however widespread support for this.

Some activities that they used to overcome barriers and enhance engagement included exploring the school versus discipline domain, engaging staff in collecting the profile data, using school exemplars chosen by them, providing a pilot in each school, undertaking roadshows on the pilots, expanding how to engage in the project, creating an open resource for all, providing regular updates and showing links with the university requirements.