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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
      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
      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
      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
      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
      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
      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
      Modified: January 2021
      Created: May 2019

    • We all bring the strands together

      Principal focus of the project

      This expansive ETF programme exploring outstanding teaching, learning and assessment in a wide variety of further education contexts.

      Areas of learning
      Modified: February 2021
      Created: October 2018

    • Use of colour overlays.

      Principal focus of the project

      This project aimed to explore the impact on learners of colour (as overlays or as coloured paper) on learners' reading speed, comfort, accuracy, concentration and progression. It gathered and triangulated evidence from a sample of 22 learners (9 school leavers and 13 adult learners) via questionnaires, reading age and reading speed tests (before and after) and other learner feedback from interviews.

      Areas of learning
      Modified: March 2021
      Created: July 2017

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