Learning & Teaching

The Assess stage aims to build confidence in assessing future skills and support the development of meaningful assessment that celebrates subject authenticity, brings in real-world or practical applications or replicates methods used by graduate recruiters. 

Meaningful assessment helps students develop and apply subject-area knowledge, as well as knowledge and skills that may be useful for them in other settings. For example, mirroring professional or disciplinary practice can help students connect their learning to a future context.

Providing students with feedback on their skills development also supports their ability to recognise, articulate and build on their progress. Our Future Skills Taxonomy provides a shared language in which we can talk about future skills with students in a consistent way. To support the assessment of these skills, a series of downloadable template assessment rubrics have been created that focus on the future skills featured in the taxonomy, such as presentations, teamwork and problem solving.

Self-reflection supports both meaningful assessment and skills feedback and work is currently underway to develop a model of reflection for the University of Glasgow. This will be shaped by the University of Queensland’s SEAL reflective model, which was developed as an institutional framework in 2016. A series of resources are currently in development, which will include a reflection rubric, case studies of how reflection can be used in assessment, exemplars – and more.

What support is provided at this stage? 

• The Assessment and Feedback Resources Hub, including more on Meaningful Assessment
• A series of template assessment rubrics for Future Skills which cover areas such as presentations, teamwork and analysis.  
• The Glasgow model of reflection and examples of reflective assessment activities [currently in development]
• You can also reach out to your College contact from Academic Digital Development or Careers, Employability & Opportunity to talk through this support in more detail.