Personalising the Assessment Experience: Closing the Gap Between Learning, Assessment, Feedback and Future

Performance

Shane Sutherland,Development Director, PebblePad

How the next 20 minutes might look...

• situating PebblePad,

• then a run through some 'assessment' functions: scaffolded feedback forms, the comment bank and the 'feedback conversations'.

• including students in the assessment process through peer review.

• tutor/QA tools: blind/double blind marking, validation functions, foot-printing and tutor blog

• Ooh! And finally, the PebbleQuizBuilder

What is an eportfolio?An eportfolio is a purposeful aggregation of digital

items – ideas, evidence, reflections, feedback etc, which “presents” a selected audience with evidence of a

person’s learning and/or ability.Sutherland and Powell, 2007

Behind any product, or presentation, lie rich and complex processes of planning, synthesising, sharing,

discussing, reflecting, giving, receiving and responding to feedback

JISC, 2008

Isn’t this just good learning and teaching?

Social Networking Space

Institutional Learning

Environment

PLS

personally providedpersonal contentpersonally controlled

institutionally provided

institutional content institutionally

controlled

institutionally provided

personal contentpersonally controlled

...there is no end point of ‘un-enrolment’ within a Personal Learning Space

1 ...supports personal learning

2 ...offers a safe and private space which is owned and controlled by the learner

3 ...is multi-purpose – but purposeful

4 ...supports learning wherever it happens, whenever it happens

5 ...helps to surface and scaffold the process of learning

6 ...is underpinned, and informed, by a reflective structure

7 ...gets people talking and helps users construct their narratives

8 ...can accompany learners throughout their lives and across all their activities

Principles of a PLS

At this point a live demonstration was given to show the different interactions of a module leader, a student and a moderator.

These screen grabs provide some indication of the wide range of assessment functionality of the gateways in PebblePad

The gateway permission structure

This is the latest version of PebblePad and includes tool which allow all users to design and share their own templates and quizzes