Record of assessment moderation practice (RAMP): survey software as a mechanism of continuous quality improvement

In higher education, assessment integrity is pivotal to student learning and satisfaction, and, therefore, a particularly important target of continuous quality improvement. This paper reports on the preliminary development and application of a process of recording and analysing current assessment m...

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Main Author: Johnson, Genevieve
Format: Journal Article
Published: Routledge 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7349
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description In higher education, assessment integrity is pivotal to student learning and satisfaction, and, therefore, a particularly important target of continuous quality improvement. This paper reports on the preliminary development and application of a process of recording and analysing current assessment moderation practices, with the aim of identifying areas in need of improvement. Specifically, survey software was used to create a record keeping strategy in which unit coordinators documented the assessment moderation and integrity practices in each unit during each study period. Such an online survey approach to record keeping was amenable to data analysis with statistical software, which facilitated identification of trends and anomalies. Instructional staff responded well to the initiative. As is typically the case with monitoring of behaviour, improvements in assessment moderation practices were immediately apparent.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-73492017-09-13T14:33:46Z Record of assessment moderation practice (RAMP): survey software as a mechanism of continuous quality improvement Johnson, Genevieve assessment integrity continuous quality improvement assessment moderation university students In higher education, assessment integrity is pivotal to student learning and satisfaction, and, therefore, a particularly important target of continuous quality improvement. This paper reports on the preliminary development and application of a process of recording and analysing current assessment moderation practices, with the aim of identifying areas in need of improvement. Specifically, survey software was used to create a record keeping strategy in which unit coordinators documented the assessment moderation and integrity practices in each unit during each study period. Such an online survey approach to record keeping was amenable to data analysis with statistical software, which facilitated identification of trends and anomalies. Instructional staff responded well to the initiative. As is typically the case with monitoring of behaviour, improvements in assessment moderation practices were immediately apparent. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7349 10.1080/02602938.2014.911244 Routledge fulltext
spellingShingle assessment integrity
continuous quality improvement
assessment moderation
university students
Johnson, Genevieve
Record of assessment moderation practice (RAMP): survey software as a mechanism of continuous quality improvement
title Record of assessment moderation practice (RAMP): survey software as a mechanism of continuous quality improvement
title_full Record of assessment moderation practice (RAMP): survey software as a mechanism of continuous quality improvement
title_fullStr Record of assessment moderation practice (RAMP): survey software as a mechanism of continuous quality improvement
title_full_unstemmed Record of assessment moderation practice (RAMP): survey software as a mechanism of continuous quality improvement
title_short Record of assessment moderation practice (RAMP): survey software as a mechanism of continuous quality improvement
title_sort record of assessment moderation practice (ramp): survey software as a mechanism of continuous quality improvement
topic assessment integrity
continuous quality improvement
assessment moderation
university students
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7349