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Blogging for Summative Assessment in Postgraduate Education

Neumann, T; (2017) Blogging for Summative Assessment in Postgraduate Education. In: Havemann, L and Sherman, S, (eds.) Assessment, Feedback and Technology: Contexts and Case Studies in Bloomsbury. (pp. 41-43). Bloomsbury Learning Environment: London, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

Blogging is widely regarded as a useful tool for reflection, articulation of ideas, and learning from peers - activities that support the formation of knowledge. Hence, blogging is often used in the formative stage of a module: Entries normally address curriculum topics for a particular week, so peer or tutor feedback works best with quick response times, before the curriculum journey moves on to new topics. Such a body of writing of course only develops with regular and consistent engagement. While engagement can be enforced by making a blogging activity mandatory, students would be better motivated if they had a more tangible return to their efforts. High quality formative feedback would provide such return, but at the cost of a high tutor workload. Embedding the blogging activity into the summative module assessment would provide an alternative motivation without overloading tutors.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Blogging for Summative Assessment in Postgraduate Education
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5315224
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5315224
Language: English
Additional information: Assessment, Feedback and Technology: Contexts and Case Studies in Bloomsbury, edited by Leo Havemann and Sarah Sherman, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Keywords: Education, Learning Technologies, Technology, Assessment, Blogging, Learning Activity, Case Study
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1575515
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