1st Edition
Student Agency and Engagement Transforming Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Part I: TESTA’s research and change process
Introduction: Why another book on assessment and feedback?
Chapter 1: A research methodology for transforming students’ experience
Chapter 2: The TESTA method: tools, techniques, and approaches
Part II: Alienation and engagement
Chapter 3: Alienation in assessment: Opening Pandora’s box
Chapter 4: The wider context of alienation in higher education
Part III: Engaging assessment and feedback: From analysis to practice
Chapter 5. From alienation to engagement in assessment design
Chapter 6. From alienation to engagement: Realising the promise of feedback
Chapter 7: From alienation to engagement: Internalising standards
Chapter 8: Reflections on TESTA’s educational change process
Part IV: The future: New horizons and challenges
Epilogue: TESTA in a post-pandemic world
Appendix A: TESTA case study: BA (Hons) X: Poppletown University
Appendix B: Assessment experience questionnaire (V3.3)
Appendix C: Assessment experience questionnaire (V4.0)
Appendix D: Assessment experience questionnaire (V5.1)
Appendix E: TESTA Focus Group questions
Index
Biography
Tansy Jessop is Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students at the University of Bristol. She leads ‘Transforming the Experience of Students through Assessment’ (TESTA), a research and change project which has challenged education leaders across the sector to re-imagine assessment and feedback from a student perspective.
