Write Now

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Write Now

• Five-year HEFCE-funded Centre of Excellence in
  Teaching and Learning
• Collaboration between London Metropolitan,
  Liverpool Hope, and Aston Universities
• To promote excellence in writing for assessment
  across disciplines
• Comprehensive programme of development, research
  and evaluation, and dissemination of good
  practice
• Developed from successful psychology-based FDTL4
  Assessment Plus project on using assessment
  criteria to support student learning

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Aims

• To improve student achievement and enrich
  students learning experiences by facilitating
  them to become confident and successful writers
• To develop innovative, evidence-based provision
  focussed on writing for assessment
• To conduct pedagogical research to underpin the
  practice of the Centre, including key areas of
  development, evaluation and dissemination
• To disseminate and embed in partner institutions
  and across the sector

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Activities

• Writing Centres
• Undergraduate writing coaches
• Working with staff to promote writing in
  curriculum design
• Assessment guidance packages
• Personalised student websites

• Workshop programmes for students and staff
• Induction resources
• MSc in Student Assessment
• Student focus groups and forums
• Pedagogical research

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Writing Centres at London Met and
Liverpool Hope

• Writing coaches
• Individual consultations
• Peer-support groups
• Master classes
• Online and hard-copy resources
• Personalised student websites

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Student Writing Coaches

• Paid student mentors, linked to specific subjects
• London Met Psychology, Humanities and Film,
  Design
• Liverpool Hope Psychology, Law, English
  Language, Special Needs Education
• Aim of the scheme
• To assist students in the improvement of their
  writing and in gaining confidence as writers and
  as participants in the discourse of their
  academic disciplines

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MSc Student Assessment

• Modular, research-based course exploring
  assessment issues in depth
• Flexible, e-learning approach with short
  residential sessions
• Full-time, part-time, short course options
• Enrolment for individual modules, with
  intermediate exits of PGCert and PGDip
• APEL for PGCert in TLHE
• Designed for educators and staff developers in FE
  and HE, in the UK and abroad, including external
  examiners and those responsible for managing
  assessment

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MSc Student Assessment Course Aims

• The MSc aims to provide
• A systematic understanding and critical awareness
  of current issues and new insights in the field
  of student assessment
• A clear understanding of why particular
  assessment practices are adopted and maintained,
  and why change can be hard to implement
• A critical analysis and evaluation of a range of
  assessment techniques for effective student
  learning to enable you to design and apply those
  most appropriate in a given context
• Conceptual understanding that enables you to
  evaluate current research and advanced
  scholarship
• A critical analysis and evaluation of techniques
  applicable to your own research or advanced
  scholarship, to enable you to carry out and
  publish pedagogical research related to your own
  practice

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Write Now Research

• Symbiotic relationship between evaluation and
  research at the core of Write Now CETL
  activities, through
• Action research
• Qualitative quantitative measures of efficacy
  of writing interventions
• Student participation in study designs
• Large-scale research project
• New lecturers perceptions, beliefs and
  approaches to assessment, marking and feedback
• HEA project
• Staff and student perceptions of the quality of
  feedback on assignments in large UG courses
• Mini-research projects and PhD studentships
• Biddable funding and competitive awards

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Contact details

• Dr Katherine Harrington, CETL Director
• k.harrington_at_londonmet.ac.uk
• Chris Beaumont, CETL Deputy Director
• beaumoc_at_hope.ac.uk
• Dr Katerina Koutsantoni, CETL Administrator
• k.koutsantoni_at_londonmet.ac.uk
• Information on Write Now will be available soon
  at www.writenow.ac.uk