Author: Syeve Jones, s.r.jones@leedsmet.ac.uk

JISC e-Learning Activity Area: e-Assessment

Higher Education Academy Subject Centre: Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism

This case study illustrates...an effect on exam results, an effect on student personal development, innovation in learning and teaching, staff satisfaction with e-learning, use of resources

Lessons Learned

Summary and Reflection

This approach has been, on the whole, effective in pedagogical terms. It has delivered a number of important benefits for students, but equally the approach has some drawbacks such as one type of feedback not necessarily fitting all students.

In terms of the institutional assessment learning and teaching strategy this is important and certainly fits the target noted in the initial paragraphs of this case study. However as an example it is a little problematic since some staff see the size and coverage of the assessment within this module as being difficult to emulate. Within the faculty (and to some extent within the institution) there is a need for further small-scale use of formative computer assisted assessment-certainly this would be an easier goal to achieve.

Much of the learning from this approach is apparent within the case study since evaluation and review of this approach has been ongoing during the running of the module and in a full module review after the module has been run by the year. Where appropriate the module team reacted to issues and implemented solutions as the need arose.

Future developments are likely to include broadening the range of question types, but are unlikely to include further development of computer assisted assessment within this module. However, staff teaching on this module are considering using this approach in other modules.