{"id":699,"date":"2019-04-16T11:44:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T10:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/emlt\/?p=699"},"modified":"2023-01-05T14:21:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T14:21:51","slug":"emlt-spring-event-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2019\/04\/emlt-spring-event-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"EMLT Spring Event Round-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The session last week went well, with lots of lively discussion and sharing of ideas around the subject of assessment design for anonymous marking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, we were not able to record the presentation on the day as some of the conversations on this were of a sensitive nature due to some organisations being in the early stages of introducing anonymous marking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first presentation was delivered by Matt Hope and Rich Goodman from Loughborough University who provided an overview of their current thinking about introducing anonymous marking at the University. The first part of this process was to look at the practices currently taking place at the institution and to carry out some research into the approaches other institutions are taking to introduce anonymous marking. They also talked over some of the technical issues with introducing anonymous marking including the different ways students submit work and how these can be set up to receive anonymous submissions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We then had a talk called \u2018Marking anon or Aaron\u2019 from Sally Hanford and Claire Chambers, University of Nottingham. They talked about the institutional approach being taken to anonymous marking and how they put this into practice in the faculties they support. They reflected on the importance of making the process for submitting anonymously as simple as possible and ensuring expectations around this are clearly communicated to staff and students. They reflected on some of the problematic areas of anonymous marking such as managing extensions and investigating academic offences, which again require some additional thinking about how these are managed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final part of the day provided everyone with the opportunity to have a go at designing an authentic assessment which could be anonymously marked. Starting with a set of learning outcomes and an assessment outline, we had to think through a set of questions, discussing them within our group. The questions we used were:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n