Evaluation and assessment

Start here if you are looking for practitioner research with a focus on any and all aspects of evaluation of the whole organisation down to individual learners. This includes:

assessment of the whole organisation or of specific programmes by Ofsted, QAA, ESFA, professional bodies and other external validators
externally validated summative assessment and examination of learners’ work leading to a qualification
evaluation of performance of staff
formative assessment (designed for feedback and performance improvement) of learners, staff, courses, programmes and whole institutions.

Featured resources

Improving students essay-writing skills and longer response answers through online peer marking

Principal focus of the project

The focus was to reduce the teacher’s marking workload, improve, students understanding of essays, longer response answers and mark schemes, as well as being an enjoyable and novel way of learning.
Areas of learning
- Science and mathematics
- Education and training
Modified: September 2020

Created: October 2011
Paving the way to Level 6 — Bedford College

Principal focus of the project

The project aims were to: find out what higher education providers considered to be key learner requirements for level 6 study; incorporate the requirements into their teaching at access and foundation degree levels; better prepare learners for higher education courses at local universities and colleges; and to facilitate students' progression to Level 6.
Areas of learning
- Education and training
Modified: September 2020

Created: April 2019
Assessment for Learning and Assessment as Learning - DevelopEBP

Principal focus of the project

This project explored supporting learners to take a more active role in the process of assessment by replacing the grading system with specific, targeted feedback.
Areas of learning
- Education and training
Modified: November 2020

Created: September 2020
Assessment for Learning - Brooklands College

Principal focus of the project

This project aimed to identify strategies to help overcome the barriers students face when trying to engage with a non-fiction text.
Areas of learning
- Education and training
Modified: November 2020

Created: September 2020
Level Up - South Devon College

Principal focus of the project

The aim of this project was to raise learner achievement and aspiration by developing a new progressive marking strategy across the English department.
Areas of learning
- Education and training
Modified: November 2020

Created: September 2020
Exploring Delivery in Apprenticeship Standards

Principal focus of the project

This expansive programme looked at what outstanding teaching, learning and assessment looked like, where the Apprenticeship Standards were becoming embedded in provider practice.

Areas of learning

Modified: December 2020

Created: May 2019
Advanced Practitioner Case Studies

Principal focus of the project

The ETF commissioned the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) to explore to what extent the advanced practitioner role was beneficial to the development of practitioners, and useful in the improvement of TLA, as there was limited current research available at that time.
Areas of learning
- Education and training
Modified: December 2020

Created: December 2018
Advanced Practitioner Case Study - A Universal Model, Bournemouth and Poole College & Kingston Maurward College

Principal focus of the project

The partners worked together to raise the visibility of their APs by codesigning a ‘Meet your APs’ page which they each uploaded to their virtual learning environments (VLEs). The page contained pictures of each of the APs, their particular areas of expertise as well as something more unique and humorous about each of them that was aimed at engaging staff and breaking down barriers.
Areas of learning
- Education and training
Modified: January 2021

Created: May 2019
Mastery in GCSE Maths: should we teach fewer topics in greater depth?

Principal focus of the project

This project investigated how a slimmed down curriculum that focussed on mastery could improve the classroom attitudes and performance of GCSE Maths resit students.
Areas of learning
- Science and mathematics
- Education and training
Modified: January 2021

Created: January 2021
Assessment methods have moved on, but assessment feedback has not

Principal focus of the project

This study focussed on assessing student engagement with digital feedback on Level 3 vocational programmes.
Areas of learning
- Education and training
Modified: January 2021

Created: January 2021

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Featured resources

Improving students essay-writing skills and longer response answers through online peer marking

Paving the way to Level 6 — Bedford College

Assessment for Learning and Assessment as Learning - DevelopEBP

Assessment for Learning - Brooklands College

Level Up - South Devon College

Exploring Delivery in Apprenticeship Standards

Advanced Practitioner Case Studies

Advanced Practitioner Case Study - A Universal Model, Bournemouth and Poole College & Kingston Maurward College

Mastery in GCSE Maths: should we teach fewer topics in greater depth?

Assessment methods have moved on, but assessment feedback has not

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