Education Conversations

In our final episode, Dr Jacqui Hutchison, Lecturer in the School of Psychology, shares insights from her School’s engagement with TESTA, including the impact on curriculum conversations and assessment strategy.

Episode three features Alan Grieve, Lecturer in the School of Education. Alan talks about his experience of engaging with TESTA at programme level, and what the process revealed about assessment patterns, feedback, and opportunities for change.

In episode two, we hear from Bethany Parrillo, our TESTA Student Assistant for 2023–24 and a recent graduate in MA History and Theology. Bethany shares the student perspective on TESTA and reflects on what it’s been like to contribute to assessment enhancement work.

I’m Professor Kirsty Kiezebrink, and I’ll be your host for this series. Across these episodes, we’ll explore how TESTA has supported us to take a holistic, evidence-informed look at assessment and feedback, and how it’s shaping conversations about programme design and the student experience here at Aberdeen.

In our first episode, I’m joined by Dr Mary Pryor, Senior Academic Development Adviser, and Dr Chloe Alexander, Senior Academic Skills Adviser in Academic Writing from the Centre for Academic Development. Together, we introduce TESTA at Aberdeen, discuss what the process involves, and reflect on what we’ve learned from working with programme teams across the University.

The opening episode of the TESTA series features a conversation between Professor Kirsty Kiezebrink and the facilitators, Dr Chloe Alexander and Dr Mary Pryor from the Centre for Academic Development, about why the project, which involves a review of the Intended Learning Outcomes, assessment, and feedback  practices across a degree programme, was launched.

Professor Jo-Anne Murray is joined by Chris Trace and Kaya Hunter from Keath.ai to talk about the impact of AI across all levels of Education. Keath.ai, a spin-of company from the University of Sussex, specialises in the use of AI for assessment.

In this podcast, Professor Jo-Anne Muray talks to Dr Margaret Korosec, Dean of Online and Digital Education at the University of Leeds about transforming the student experience with online education.