Assessment and Feedback Institutional Story

1. Summary FASTECH (Feedback and Assessment for Students with Technology) is a research and development project working on 15 undergraduate degree programmes at Bath Spa University and the University of Winchester. FASTECH's first principle is to work with programme team members, using baseline evidence, to develop technology strategies to address assessment and feedback challenges. The project uses a wide- range of technology strategies, in response to evidence and negotiation with lecturers and student fellows on the programmes. A key element of the FASTECH project is the use of paid Student Fellows to act as change agents, co-developers and co- researchers on the project. Programme evidence about assessment and feedback is drawn from baseline data collected through the HEA-funded TESTA National Teaching Fellowship Project, which is an evidence-based project leading to changes in programme assessment (www.testa.ac.uk). TESTA is constructed around a set of assessment principles which have proven value in helping students to learn from assessment. These principles inform FASTECH's research and development agenda, deriving from conditions to improve student learning identified by Graham Gibbs through a wide-scale review of disciplinary literature (Gibbs and Simpson 2004).