HeLFElectronic Management of

Assessment SurveyData 2013

Dr Barbara Newland, Brighton

Lindsay Martin, Edge Hill

Alice Bird, Liverpool John Moores

This presentation is a summary of the quantitative data from the Heads of eLearning Forum Electronic Management of Assessment survey undertaken in March/April 2013.

Further information on the qualitative results will be made available later.

Overview

The term eSubmission is used very widely to cover a range of activities so the following definitions were used:

Definitions

eSubmission electronic submission of an assignment

eMarking electronic marking (including offline marking eg in Word)

eFeedback eFeedback - electronic feedback (ie text, audio, video but not hard copy)

eReturn eReturn - electronic return of marks

To identify current practice with regard to Electronic Management of Assessment in UK HE

To gain a snapshot of the strategic overview identifying key issues relating to assessment regulations and academic attitudes

To enable a comparison with the past 2 years

Aim

A network of senior staff in institutions engaged in promoting, supporting and developing technology enhanced learning

Over 138 nominated Heads from UK Higher Education institutions

A regular programme of well attended events

Represents the interests of its members to various national bodies and agencies including the Higher Education Academy and JISCwww.helf.ac.uk

Heads of eLearning Forum (HeLF)

The survey was available to HeLF members who were asked to respond with regard to their knowledge of their own institution.

The survey was available in March/April 2013 and took about 10 minutes to complete

The questions were a mixture of closed multiple-choice and multiple selection as well as open response type

Participants were assured that all data collected in the survey would be held anonymously and securely

No personal data was asked for or retained unless the participant indicated a willingness to participate in the follow-up activity

The results are being analyzed using quantitative and qualitative methods

Methodology

52 responses from HeLF members

38% response rate

Results

Institution-wide policy

eSubmission eMarking eFeedback0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

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45

50

YesNo

Closer to having an institution-wider policy than a year ago?

eSubmission eMarking eFeedback0

5

10

15

20

25

30

YesNoDon't know

Is the move to eFeedback leading to more standardisation in terms of the feedback provided?

University-wide

Department-wide

Neither

Which software does your institution recommend for eFeedback in text format?

Turnitin (stand-alone)Turnitin (integrated into VLE)VLEHome grownOther

Current practice

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10152025303540

University-wideSome department-wideIndividual academics

Is there evidence of increased use of mobile devices?

eSubmission eMarking eFeedback0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

Academic staffStudents

Have you experienced critical issues with the eSubmission, eMarking or eFeedback software over the past year?

YesNoDon't know

Does your institution have a fully integrated EMA approach?

YesNoUnder consideration

Does your EMA system cope with the following marking processes?

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5

10

15

20

25

30

YesNoDon't know

How would you rate attitudes to eSubmission?

Positive Negative Neutral Don't know0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

Academic staffAdministrative staffStudents

How would you rate attitudes to eFeedback?

Positive Negative Neutral Don't know0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

Academic staffAdministrative staffStudents

How would you rate academic staff attitudes to eMarking?

PositiveNegativeNeutralDon't know

Dr Barbara Newland b.a.newland@brighton.ac.uk

Lindsey MartinLindsey.Martin@edgehill.ac.uk

Alice BirdA.Bird@ljmu.ac.uk

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