Engaging sport students in assessment and formative feedback

Allin, Linda and Fishwick, Lesley (2009) Engaging sport students in assessment and formative feedback. Other. The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism, York.

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Abstract

Sport as a discipline in higher education is grappling with the challenge of providing authentic and relevant assessment that engages students in their learning. The centrality of assessment to the student experience is now well accepted within the research literature (Brown and Knight, 1994; Rust, 2002). In particular, formative assessment, or assessment that creates feedback to support future teaching and learning experiences, can be a powerful tool for enhancing learning (see Black and Wiliam, 1998). Given that feedback is most effective if it is considered or reflected upon, one of the key challenges is to actively engage sport students in formative assessment processes. This guide offers advice in designing and facilitating sport students’ involvement in assessment and enhancing their engagement with the feedback they receive. The aim is to support sport programme teams by taking a pragmatic approach, combining a clear academic rationale based on assessment for learning principles with case study examples of successful formative assessment exercises emphasising innovative approaches to giving feedback. The guide consists of three key sections focused on: 1) Providing staff in HLST with background knowledge of formative assessment and formative feedback and how it relates to their subject. 2) Providing case study examples of how to effectively engage sport students with assessment feedback so that it feeds-forward to aid learning. 3) Providing a resource of references and sources of support for tutors wishing to further their learning in this area.

Item Type: Report (Other)
Uncontrolled Keywords: student evaluation, curriculum
Subjects: C600 Sports Science
X900 Others in Education
Department: Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation
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Depositing User: EPrint Services
Date Deposited: 18 May 2010 09:01
Last Modified: 24 Oct 2017 11:42
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/1492

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