Improving e-assessment uptake and use in Scotland

Setting the sceneWalter Patterson8th March 2013

Overview

Key Stakeholders

• Who are they?• What are they doing?

Contexts• What are they?• What opportunities do they provide?

Outcomes • What outcomes are expected?

Students

Teaching Staff

Colleges

Key stakeholders

What are they doing?

Providing online information on e-assessment

Providing resources/toolkits for use in colleges

Publishing case studies / good practice

Providing training for college staff

Providing advice on strategy for managers

Supporting conferences / seminars / webinars

Supporting communities of practice

Collaborating on the above

Current contexts

Resistance from teaching staff to change

Period of dramatic change in the structure and

organisation of Scottish FEIncreased

competition for SQA from other ABs

Reducing budgets for colleges in Scotland

McLelland report promoting shared ICT

services (inc VLE)

Increasing use of ICT in

education and training

Quality of learning in focus through learner voice and

Education Scotland reviews

Period of significant change

in school age education (CfE)

Opportunities

Smaller number of distinct entities to engage in dialogue

Senior managers more willing to consider efficiency savings from e-assessment

Staff more willing to consider benefits to quality of learning from e-assessment

Greater leverage from coordinated efforts of key stakeholders

Bring the learner voice into sharper focus in assessment strategy decisions

Ensure that shared ICT services considerations include e-assessment

Outcomes

A clear strategy for engagement with the sector in a sustained and informed manner. This strategy may: • include both short term and long term goals• plan for development of resources to support the

sector• capitalise on existing strengths within the main

stakeholder agencies• engage institutions at the highest level to ensure that

corporate strategy includes ‘online’

Outcomes (cont.)

The corresponding action plan could include:• engage curriculum managers to provide

evidence of benefits (quality and efficiency, better ways of working))

• engage teaching staff to ensure that they are informed of necessary procedures, and added value they can expect from e-assessment

• identification of benefits to students and how to meet their expectations

What’s in the mix?

VLEs

online assessment

e-verificatione-portfolios

Quality Assurance