Assessment and feedback repeatedly feature as areas for improvement in NSS (HEFCE, 2011)
Students feel feedback is too little and too late (Hounsell, McCune, Hounsell & Litjens, 2008)
National Student Forum calls for greater use of technology in assessment and feedback (2009)
Number of students entering HE in last 20 years, and with SpLDs (Richardson & Wydell, 2003)
Legislation places a duty of care on institutions to ensure students are not disadvantaged
e.g. DDA (1995), SENDA, (2001), Equality Act (2010)
Students view assessment tasks as hoops to be jumped through (Gibbs & Simpson, 2004)
Cost-efficiency pressures have made traditional model unsustainable (Bloxham & Boyd, 2007)
… larger class sizes, modularisation, widening participation all contributory factors …
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