Commentary on Policies and Projects
Commentary on Policies and Projects


This web-based collection contains case studies, commentaries and tools supporting the enhancement of assessment and feedback in Irish higher education programmes. The collection showcases the contribution of 31 staff and two students, from 14 national and five international institutions. The topics explored in this collection highlight the complexity of programme approaches to assessment and feedback, in particular:
– the drivers of programme assessment change
– leading change to programme assessment
– exploring the evidence for what’s going on in programme(s) and
– ideas to enhance changes in programme(s) assessment.
The collection should be valuable to a range of stakeholders in higher education, i.e. academic staff, senior administrators, programme teams, students, quality assurance officers, education developers/technologists, assessment unit staff, etc.
Scholarship Update: Investigating students’ difficulties with differential equations in physics
Scholarship Update: Rich MOOC Poor MOOC – What good data analytics can tell us about teaching and learning
Scholarship Update: An investigation into the acculturation experiences of Muslim students in third level education in the Republic of Ireland
Scholarship Update: Implementing a cultural historical activity theory approach in a blended learning course for ab initio learners of Irish
Scholarship Update: Co-Creating Development Education: Learning from stories of students and communities collaborating for local and global social justice, through community-basedlearning, technology-enhanced-learning and storytelling.
Case Study A: Gauging Student Engagement in a Blended Programme
Commentary: A Case for Slow Scholarship: Implications for Programme Assessment Design
The Wider Context of Programme-Level Enhancement of Assessment