RIDE conference, accelerating innovation, Wednesday 15th June 2022 Isobel Bowditch & Marieke GuyDigital Assessment Advisors, UCL

1. RIDE CONFERENCE, ACCELERATING INNOVATION,
WEDNESDAY 15TH JUNE 2022
The Digital Assessment Marathon
Isobel Bowditch & Marieke Guy
Digital Assessment Advisors, UCL

2. The starting line
2019 Plan for marathon
Gradual progression from
traditional to contemporary
digital assessment environment
2020 Suddenly we’re sprinting
Lift and shift at speed and scale
Fit for purpose assessment platform:
• Continuity + improvement
• Resilience
• Integration
• Flexibility and range

3. All the gear…

4. ...and no idea (or maybe some)
Knowns (2020-21)
Type of exams supported
Robustness
User experience
Known unknowns (2021-22)
Demand
Support
Range of practices
Unknown unknowns...

5. Team coaching
New Digital Assessment Advisory Team
Embedded within Faculties

6. Training schedule
2020-21
18 marker training sessions (300 attendees)
430 staff watched online
2021-22
• 60 + role-based sessions (400 +
attendees)
• 21284 staff watched online
• Bespoke departmental sessions
• Weekly drop ins
+
• MCQ and Rubric workshops
• Assessment design
Image Lance Goyke Flickr

7. 'online marking [assessment] is not a unified practice but is instead a set of
varied and rich approaches, heavily influenced by previous experiences.’
Emma Mayhew et al
• Departmental cultures
• Training and enhancements – are we focussing on the right
things?
• Productive partnerships with stakeholders
Runner needs

8. Getting people on the track
• Involving stakeholders
• Landscape report and ASER reports
• Working with the product team
• Translating between teams
• Starting conversations
• An institutional wide dialogue on digital
assessment
• Tech vs pedagogy
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/teaching-learning/case-studies

9. Giving them space to run
• Assessment Design Student Partners
• Use of the UCL Chart tool
• Student Changemakers project
• Assessment hackathon
• Learning lab
• Education conference

10. The next lap
• Staff and student
survey
• Assessment
experiences of
staff and students
Learning
• Changes for 2022-
23
• Academic integrity
• Wellbeing
Assessment
operating model • Some departments
moving back to
F2F
• Some departments
moving to digital
Changing
approaches
• Conversations
• ABC workshops
• Other workshops
Assessment
design

11. Where’s the
finishing
line?
What will assessment look like
in 2035?
What is assessment for?
What is education for?
• Technology in a supporting role
• People-centric – staff and students

12. RIDE CONFERENCE, ACCELERATING INNOVATION,
WEDNESDAY 15TH JUNE 2022
Thanks for listening!
Marieke Guy (m.guy@ucl.ac.uk)