Assess for Success

Project overview

‘Assess for Success’ is one of the Maynooth University National Forum funded Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement (SATLE 2020) initiatives.

This initiative has established an Assessment and Feedback hub. The hub is a central, online, ‘go-to’ space for staff, where they can find resources to support and enhance assessment and feedback practice. It has been designed so that it can be continuously developed and grow over time.

The initiative involved surveying Maynooth University staff to identify experiences and challenges of assessment and feedback, including in the current Covid context, and to clarify key priority areas for support and development.

Project key features and timeframes

February 2022 the project commenced.
An advisory group, comprising Maynooth University staff and students, guided the project (February – June 2022).
Staff were consulted on their assessment and feedback needs in order to identify the hub topics and priorities (February-March 2022).
Hub development was initiated and experts were identified (April 2022).
Development of expert-led guides (May-September 2022).
Expert led workshops (April-November 2022)
Development of approximately 30 Assessment and Feedback OERs (April – December 2022)
Launch of Hub (November 2022)
Dissemination and project evaluation (December 2022)

The Assessment and Feedback Hub is accessible here.

More information

If you would like to learn more about this initiative, please contact Alison Farrell in the Centre for Teaching & Learning, on [email protected]

Advisory Group Membership

The Assess for Success project is guided by an advisory group made up of students and staff. The advisory group helps to ensure that the project goals are achieved, provides insights, advice and guidance, and contributes to the sharing of information about the initiative with the university community.

Advisory Group Membership
Aine Carey, Library
Dr Donal Coffey, Law
Dr Adeline Cooney, Centre for Teaching and Learning
Niall Daly, Maynooth Students’ Union
Dr John Dooley, Electronic Engineering Department
Dr Alison Farrell, Centre for Teaching and Learning
Dr Aisling Flynn, Experiential Learning Office
Dr Susi Gottlöber, Philosophy
Sousane Issaad, National Forum Student Associate Intern
Dr Alison Hood, Office of the Dean of Teaching and Learning
Michael Kenny, Adult and Community Education
Dr Anthony Malone, Education
Dr Tracey Ní Mhaonaigh, NuaGhaeilge
Lisa O’Regan, Centre for Teaching and Learning
Dr Tuvana Pastine, Economics
Prof Denise Rooney, Chemistry
Dr Rose Ryan, Maynooth Access Programme
Michaela Waters, National Forum Student Associate Intern

Webinars and Workshops

As part of the Assess for Success initiative we ran a series of interactive webinars and workshops.

The sessions comprised elements of presentation, interaction and discussion with plenty of dialogic opportunities for Maynooth University staff to ask questions and showcase their own good practice.

Four workshops took place:

Friday 8^th April 2022 - Approaches to Assessment
Friday 13^th May 2022 - Academic Integrity – Exploring Research and Practice
Friday 20^th May 2022 - Authentic Assessment
Friday 10th June 2022 - Feedback, including Feedback Literacy

The workshops were attended by a diverse range of staff and students, and were well-recieved by participants.

Please email us at [email protected] if you would like further information on any of these events.

Assess for Success Guides

As part of the ‘Assess for Success’ initiative, the Centre for Teaching and Learning worked with Professor Sally Brown and Professor Kay Sambell to develop six guides on the topics that staff had identified as priorities regarding assessment and feedback. All of the guides are published and shared under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA.

Approaches to Assessment
Feedback and Feedback Literacy
Designing Authentic Assessment
Self and Peer Assessment
A Principles Based Toolkit for Effective Assessment Design
Using Rubrics to Promote Learning

Research

Undergraduate Studies

Postgraduate Studies

International

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