Sally Brown

Today is the first of the Faculty days Margaret Price and I are doing using material from the HEA project ‘A marked improvement’, part of the  extended Transforming Assessment Project at ARU. I am looking forward to working with colleagues from the Lord Ashcroft International Business School and the slides I will use are here. ARU slides (593 downloads)

After a cracking day at the Inclusive Assessment conference run by PeDRIO with Plymouth University on Monday, I am working today with Nursing and Social Work colleagues on ‘Enhancing  the student experience’ and ;Streamlining assessment’.   The slides are available here. Streamlining Assessment slides (865 downloads) , Enhancing student experience: slides (646 downloads) .Who would have thought we could be eating the buffet lunch on a sunny balcony without coats in mid-November as we did yesterday!

Brilliant sunshine today at Plymouth University’s ‘Inclusive Assessment  in Practice’ conference, where I am running a session on ‘Inclusive International assessment’. The slides and handout I’m using are here. International Assessment slides (526 downloads) , International Assessment handout (528 downloads) .  It’s always a pleasure to come and participate at events at the University that gave me and Phil Honorary Doctorates on a similarly sunny but much warmer day last year.

On 20 and 21 November I will be running workshops a at the Chelmsford and Cambridge campuses of Anglia Ruskin University as part of the ongoing ‘Transforming Assessment project, concentrating today specifically on feedback. Here are the slides I am using. ARU slides (648 downloads)

This week I was delighted to launch my book Assessment, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Global Perspectives at the SEDA conference.   Thanks so much to Amanda for supporting the event and to contributing colleagues for joining me to celebrate the book as well as the new Palgrave Teaching and Learning website which I am curating. I am particularly grateful to Suzannah Burywood and Helen Caunce of Palgrave for all their support (and for paying for the fizz at the event), to Hala Mansour for travelling  all the way from Northampton by train for the launch, to Maidie Semiras of Heavenly Cupcakes in Nottingham for making the  brilliant cake and to Phil Race.

On Thursday 6 November and Friday 7th November I am working again at the University of Luxembourg on assessment and evaluating& enhancing your own teaching. I’m looking forward to visiting again and hoping for better weather than the wintry storms that prevented us getting out into the Christmas markets on our last visit. Here are the slides and handouts I am using. Improving student assessment (1007 downloads)    Evaluating and enhancing teaching (699 downloads)    Assess your own teaching quality (536 downloads)    Assessment good practice accounts (647 downloads)    Critical comparison of assessment types (551 downloads)    Feedback handout from book (567 downloads)    Peer observation handout (509 downloads)    Planning and reflecting on your teaching (515 downloads)

I am very excited about launching my new book ‘Assessment, learning and teaching in Higher Education: Global Perspectives’ on Thursday 13th November at the SEDA conference at 7pm   at the NCTL Learning and Conference Centre in Nottingham. Friends and colleagues are invited to come along for some celebratory cake if you are in the area.

Glad that my website is now up and running again after a temporary issue with ‘a permissions error’ on a system fie – many thanks Ed Phillips for sorting it out really quickly.

I’ve been working today with colleagues at London South Bank University supporting colleagues thinking about applying for National Teaching Fellowships and going for  Principal Fellowships. The slides are here. South Bank (670 downloads) , UKPSF slides (662 downloads)

I am celebrating today receiving the advance copy of my new book. I will be launching it at the SEDA conference on Thursday 13th November at 7pm. Do come along for wine and cakes if you are in the area. the NCTL Learning and Confernece Centrre, Nottingham.

In the background is an orchid I am also proud of, it’s in its fifth year of flowering.

Here are the slides I used in my workshop today at ARU on Assessing Group Work Fairly. ARU Group Work (572 downloads)

Today Phil and I together with Kate Little of NUS, Berry Donovan of Oxford Brookes, Kay Sambell of Northumbria and Fabio d’Arico  of UEA are presenting at Anglia Ruskin’s Assessment Fiesta at their bucolic Chelmsford campus. My slides on group assessment are  here and the twitter hash tag is #LTAFiesta  Small Groups (586 downloads)