2023: eAssessment Awards selected winners showcase

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A joint session with the eAssessment Association and Transforming Assessment.

Session chair: Paul Muir (Vice Chair of the e-Assessment Association, UK)

Featuring four selected winners of the 2023 awards (see all winners on the eAA site):

1) Best Transformational Project Award: Birmingham City University - BCU Hybrid Model

Post pandemic, universities across the world faced a difficult decision. Should they return to traditional exams or continue on their journey of digital assessment? Faced with this choice, Birmingham City University, and the Digital Assessment Centre Team decided to implement a new learning model using digital technology, building on everything that had come before. Based on students voicing their ideal learning methods, we believed a new approach was necessary to create an inclusive and positive experience for as many students as possible. We took the innovative approach to combining traditional examination with remote digital assessment, creating the Hybrid Model. We rejected paper-based exams and focused on progressing our digital assessment strategy while enabling students to take their exams on campus if preferred This model offers the students the choice of taking their exam from home, or on campus, with all students taking their exam concurrently on the same digital assessment software. This unique approach allows students to choose their own mode of assessment, increasing engagement and student satisfaction. This has transformed the approach to all exams across the institution.

2) Best Formative Assessment Project Award: GoReact - empower confident skills through formative feedback

In many phases of education and learning, courses are built around summative assessments: final exams, final projects and final opportunities to demonstrate an entire unit, semester or years’ worth of learning. The problem with this approach is its finality. Summative assessment evaluates the end of learning over time without accounting for the progression of learning over time. In contrast, formative assessment not only measures, but helps improve learning and skill development over time. Instructors may steer away from this approach because it can be time-consuming or difficult to implement. One solution for both challenges is video. Using video for formative assessment gives instructors a fast and flexible way to monitor learner progress and promote their success—through targeted feedback, personalised learning, and self/peer evaluation—learners know where to focus their efforts when it’s time to prepare for final assessments. Born in Utah in 2011, GoReact is now used in more than 800 institutions and training environments around the world. Over 25 million videos have been uploaded and recorded by more than 1 million users worldwide and an infinite number of skills have been empowered. This is proof that video + feedback = confident skills.

3) Most Innovative Use of Technology in Assessment Award: RM - Innovating with customers on exam malpractice

The International Medical University (IMU), Malaysia, is a premier medical and health sciences university established in 1992. It offers various educational programs, from pre-university to postgraduate levels, as well as professional development courses. With its curricula benchmarked to international standards and a learning model grounded in its core values, IMU fosters students into knowledgeable and competent healthcare professionals. In 2017, the university decided to transition from its paper-based testing to an end-to-end digital assessment platform for streamlining its entire assessment process and leveraging powerful analytics to enhance assessment quality. To achieve this, IMU partnered with Excelsoft, which implemented its flagship Saras Test and Assessment platform, the design for which was guided by the principles of outcome-based education, strong alignment of curriculum and assessment, and provision of timely and individualized student feedback. During the pandemic, the university expanded its requirement for on-campus exam delivery to include remote delivery. This was done to ensure an uninterrupted assessment cycle, which enabled students to graduate on time and make valuable contributions to the medical field during challenging times. Notably, the flexibility to take exams anywhere, on any device, resulted in the doubling of assessments during and post the pandemic.

4) Best Summative Assessment Project Award: Excelsoft Technologies - International Medical University.

The International Medical University (IMU), Malaysia, is a premier medical and health sciences university established in 1992. It offers various educational programs, from pre-university to postgraduate levels, as well as professional development courses. With its curricula benchmarked to international standards and a learning model grounded in its core values, IMU fosters students into knowledgeable and competent healthcare professionals. In 2017, the university decided to transition from its paper-based testing to an end-to-end digital assessment platform for streamlining its entire assessment process and leveraging powerful analytics to enhance assessment quality. To achieve this, IMU partnered with Excelsoft, which implemented its flagship Saras Test and Assessment platform, the design for which was guided by the principles of outcome-based education, strong alignment of curriculum and assessment, and provision of timely and individualized student feedback. During the pandemic, the university expanded its requirement for on-campus exam delivery to include remote delivery. This was done to ensure an uninterrupted assessment cycle, which enabled students to graduate on time and make valuable contributions to the medical field during challenging times. Notably, the flexibility to take exams anywhere, on any device, resulted in the doubling of assessments during and post the pandemic.

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