Projects - archive
Assessment Projects
- Learning on the Language-Literature Border: Ways of integrating language and literature within final year modules.
- The primary purpose of this project is to will be an examination of a variety of methods for integrating language and literature within final year modules at the University of Central Lancashire and at other institutions. A secondary purpose will be to evaluate assessment methods that enable final year undergraduates undertaking a Language and Literature programme to reflect on their educational and intellectual experiences of both subjects and to consider their subject, generic and employability skills in a meaningful way.
- Project completed: ongoing
- Creative Assessment in the English Literature degree: Towards Criteria for Assessment
- the project will investigate creative and innovative approaches to the support and assessment of student learning, by the use of the visual image.
- Project completed: Ongoing
- Creating and Assessing Discussion Forums in English Studies
- This project aims to investigate best practice for design and assessment strategies of VLE discussion forums in English studies.
- Project completed: Ongoing
- Teaching and Assessing Writing Skills
- This project is to develop a package for web-based teaching and assessment of basic writing skills, designed to be part of a blended learning programme relevant to and adaptable by any UK HE English department.
- Project completed: Ongoing
- Teaching metrics using EVS (Electronic Voting System) handsets
- This project is a pilot scheme for developing possible uses of electronic voting system (EVS) handsets in English Literature lectures.
- Project completed: September 2005
- Learning by Producing Student journals
- This project aimed to facilitate the transfer of experience, skills and knowledge that students acquire
through the production of a student journal as part of their degree programme.
- Project completed: October 2003
- Methodology and Criteria for Two Types of 'innovative' Assessment
- This project aimed to further refine three methods of assessment: leading a discussion; making
oral contributions; and preparing a display
- Project completed: January 2003
- Study Logs / Reading Dossiers / Learning journals: their pedagogic benefits and value as a means of
assessment in English degrees
- This project examines the use, content and assessment of Reading Dossiers as part of an English Course and will result in guidelines for best
practice in this area.
- Project completed:
- Assessment and the Expanded Text Project
- This major HEFCE funded project investigated a range of assessment types and produced a wealth of reports and materials.
The English Subject Centre is hosting the archive of this project courtesy of Northumbria university.
- Project completed: January 2000
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