Working in Partnership with Students for Assessment and Feedback: A Practice Toolkit for Higher Education Teaching Staff

In recent years, there has been increasing attention to staff-student partnerships in assessment and feedback in the educational literature. A key dimension of this emergent discussion has centred on the role of these partnerships in developing assessment and feedback literacies for both students and staff. To date, however, there remains a gap in practical guidelines and support aimed at higher education teaching staff for implementing this approach as part of integrated and intentional decisions in curriculum design and in-classroom practices. Anchored in humanistic and evidence-informed academic development practice, this toolkit aims to address this gap by taking an integrated literacies for partnership approach. The toolkit brings together a selection of the research-led reflective tools and student-facing co-created guides used during the Partnerships in Assessment and Feedback Network’s enhancement programme together with practical guidelines and examples of working in partnership with students for assessment and feedback across the assessment and feedback lifecycle, from assessment briefs to feedback.