Group 5 by AN https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a As you think about closing awarding gap initiatives in your institution, use this Padlet to add your responses, and reflections. en-us 2023-09-01 13:13:08 UTC 2023-09-06 09:59:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3b7.png Reducing differential outcomes https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686424967 Reducing the volume of formal examinations in the curriculum ]]> 2023-09-06 09:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686424967 Examinations https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686426286 Reducing the volume of formal examinations to address differential attainment in classifications]]> 2023-09-06 09:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686426286 What we did https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686433197 Took formal examinations out of the assessment strategy where possible i.e. not where required by a PSRB]]> 2023-09-06 09:36:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686433197 APP https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686434080 Our APP commits us to address this and our data shows us black and minority ethnic students do not achieve as highly as white students]]> 2023-09-06 09:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686434080 Next https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686434687 We need to analyse the data as we only just did this and need to consider other factors that may be in play i.e. IMD]]> 2023-09-06 09:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686434687 Analysis needed https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686435010 We don't know yet...]]> 2023-09-06 09:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686435010 Flexible learning https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686440274 Introducing blended learning (BL) throughout the institution, from Ls 3 to 7, including apprenticeships, based on a modification of JiTT that provides a weekly scaffold across the timetabled (synchronous) and guided independent (asynchronous) learning. The BL model involved transforming, creating, and systematising learning resources into a frame that repeats weekly, is the same across modules, subjects, schools, and in effect requires student engagement before, during, and after timetabled teaching on a weekly basis.]]> 2023-09-06 09:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686440274 The BL project meant redesigning and refocusing of teaching and learning, towards more active learning, away from lecturing, and with a much greater emphasis on continuous (weekly) formative assessment built to simulate and hence prepare students for the summative assessment. https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686442436 2023-09-06 09:45:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686442436 try to decolonising the curriculum and embed EDI in the curriculum https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686449777 2023-09-06 09:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686449777 Model design, piloting, roll-out, QA, and evaluation. https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686449816 We designed a BL model, piloted it, examined outcomes (incl. staff and student feedback), developed staff training on the model pedagogy and requisite resources design, developed a frame for the design for the VLE, organised ongoing support for staff with the design over an academic year, set up a steering group to monitor progress and the regular collection and reporting of data on progress with the design, developed quality criteria for what good design looks like, and developed an evaluation strategy for the impact of the design and pedagogy that included student and staff focus groups, questions added to the module evaluation survey, and collecting quant data on student engagement and attainment.]]> 2023-09-06 09:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686449816 become an university with wider background https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686450738 2023-09-06 09:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686450738 The project is just starting https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686451130 2023-09-06 09:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686451130 Covid19, but also APP https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686451578 The Covid lockdown in 2020 provided the impetus, but strategically, the institutional APP foregrounded the pivot towards flexible learning.]]> 2023-09-06 09:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686451578 surveys should be take before the implementation of the project and after and correlate the data https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686452023 2023-09-06 09:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686452023 The Flexible Learning project completed in 2020-21; Student engagement through a BL scaffold does help with inclusion and belonging. https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686454803 Since 2020-21, the institution has jumped 50 places in the national league tables and currently sits in the Top 10 of NSS ranking. 
BL has significantly increased averaged student engagement with learning (3-4 fold, in fact), and has helped particularly underrepresented students, including global majority, commuter, first-in-family.]]> 2023-09-06 09:55:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686454803 Student module evals, staff and student feedback, increased staff scholarship and pedagogic innovation, increased student engagement with learning, institutional reputational gain through climbing up in league tables, etc. https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686457589 2023-09-06 09:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686457589 Implement a more collaborative change management approach. https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686458455 2023-09-06 09:59:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hotspot/m9evn9qulbnpkd8a/wish/2686458455