Assessment Enhancement

"Assessment defines what students regard as important, how they spend their time and how they come to see themselves as individuals"

George Brown, LTSN Assessment Series 3: A guide for lecturers

"Assessment is seen to exert a profound influence on student learning: on what students focus their attention on, on how much they study, on their quality of engagement with learning tasks, and, through feedback, on the understanding and future learning."

Gibbs & Simpson: Measuring the response of students to assessment: the Assessment Experience Questionnaire." International Improving Student Learning Symposium, 2003, Hinckley, UK.

The above two quotes illustrate the importance assessment has for student learning.

• Development work in this area is being led by the Assessment Enhancement Group.  Please see link from left hand panel for information on group membership and activity.
• Assessment Resources link (left panel) provides links to a range of useful resources, internal and external
• for Northumbria's assessment regulations and processes, Examiners' Handbook, External Examiner pages etc, please go to http://northumbria.ac.uk/sd/central/ar/lts/assess/