Sally Brown

On 3rd-5th September I worked with staff at Letterkenny Institute of Technology in Country Donegal, helping colleagues think through recommendations from recent institution-wide Programme Reviews and on Friday 7th September I worked with staff in the Sports Faculty at Sunderland University who are currently preparing for revalidation of some programmes. In both institutions we talked about assessment literacy and I mentioned an old exercise, The Egg Game that I have used over the years to promote discussion of assessment issues with staff and students, particularly developing assessment literacy in the latter. The attached reworked handout provides details on how to run the Egg Game. Please feel free to use this open educational resource and if you do, let me know how it went for you. The Egg Game (918 downloads)

Today is the final conference for the Assimilate NTFS project on Masters level assessment and we are looking forward to welcoming 120 people to  our event in Leeds. This is the compendium that we have produced illustrating good practice through case studies and national overviews. Assimilate Compendium (842 downloads)

It’s been a lovely week: on Tuesday I was awarded my PhD by Published works at Leeds metropolitan University (see photo by my son Matt Brown, incidentally, did I mention he got a First!)

We went straight on from there to present about our masters level Assessment project Assimilate at Bradford University-led  PASS conference. PASS is another NTFS project which has been exploring programme level assessment, and the event was an excellent networking and learning  opportunity. The slides I used about Assimilate are here. PASS slides (662 downloads)

Had a great day with colleagues  from sport and exercise at Sunderland University today. Here are the slides Sunderland Curriculum Refreshment (622 downloads)

Today I headlined at Cranfield where I spoke on’ Using assessment to enhance Postgraduate learning’. Here are the slides I used. Cranfield Masters level assessment (697 downloads) .  The conference had a lovely buzz and there were some interesting presentations on offer for delegates, notably one I popped into on ‘Online assessment’ by Venkat Saastry which involved remote working on live tasks set by colleagues in Shrivenham.

I delivered a new workshop today at Darlington College on developing and drafting funding bids to maximise the potential for success. The workshop went very well and I am grateful to colleagues who participated in making it an enjoyable and productive morning. The slides I used are here, Effective Bidding (1617 downloads) and I wish you every success in your next funding bids.

Today at Strawberry Hill talking about assessment. I had a great day at St Mary’s University College in London giving a keynote at their brilliantly organised conference on assessment. Many thanks to Lesley and Stephen for making me so welcome. The slides I used are here. St Mary's University College (1154 downloads)

Thanks to all my participants at my masters level assessment workshop in York based on my NTFS Assimilate project. Here are the slides: Masters Level Assessment (594 downloads)

Thanks to everyone who attended my workshop on Masters level assessment at Queens University Belfast. I very much enjoyed and learned from the presentations by fellow presenters also.

It was a ‘challenging’ journey home: you might have seen news coverage of the terrible weather in the North East of England on Thursday night which was largely centred on the suburbs where I live.! Still  we didn’t quite need to build an ark!

Here are the slides I used in my presentation (without the cakes!) QUB Masters Workshop (677 downloads)

I’ve been working today with colleagues in the Department of Sport and Exercise Science at Sunderland University (an easy trip on the Metro from home) on ‘Refreshing the Curriculum’ prior to re-validation and review. They are a really committed and student-centred team, and they participated actively in an energetic and demanding morning. The bacon sandwiches were jolly good too. Here are the slides we used.  Sunderland (570 downloads)