Transforming Assessment for Students at King’s (TASK) is our institutional change project to improve how students and staff experience the practice and process of assessment.

Our guiding principle is that assessment at university should prepare students for a digitally enabled world, engage them in lifelong learning and produce graduates enabled to make the world a better place.

Assessment is teaching; assessment is learning

Assessment at King’s should be:

• Motivating
• Inclusive
• Integral to the learning process

Who benefits from TASK?

Students are confident that the assessment process is fair and transparent and that they are assessed on skills and knowledge relevant to their discipline and the wider world. Assessment patterns are driven by the programmes learning outcomes, taking into account diversity of outputs, weightings and deadlines. 

Staff can spend more time providing feedback and practice opportunities within a module rather than focusing on summative feedback on assessments that often come too late to be useful to students. 

King’s is sure that it enables all students to achieve their potential and staff are able to deliver high quality, impactful learning experiences.

Employers are confident that a King’s graduate is equipped with the knowledge, skills, experiences and attributes to engage with the challenges of the 21^st Century workplace.

• Introducing the Assessment & Feedback Framework: This will place the programme at the core of the assessment experience.
• Providing Project Funding and Professional Development: We will support all staff in enhancing their assessment practices through dedicated funding and professional growth opportunities.
• Implementing a Range of Digital Tools: These tools will enable diverse assessments and facilitate engagement with GenAI.
• Piloting Programmatic Assessment: Learning and assessment is distributed across the entire programme rather than confined to modular units.

The Assessment and Feedback Framework was launched at the King's Education Conference in June 2024. It outlines the principles that underpin effective assessment design and practice and gives extensive guidance and examples for both.

The Assessment & Feedback Framework aims to transform assessment at King’s by ensuring that all assessments are fair, valid, and supportive of student learning. It also addresses the need for ongoing assessment validity and robustness, while allowing for adaptation in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. It allows for flexibility when necessary within a discipline while maintaining a cohesive experience for students across King’s.

Faculties are supported to align their assessment practices with the framework. Key initiatives include aligning and reducing the volume of assessments, better curating of optional modules, and minimizing deadline bunching.

Full documentation on TASK, including the Assessment and Feedback Framework can be found here (internal link)