Empowering student agency in assessment and feedback in Biological Sciences.

Engaging our students and supporting them to develop agency in assessment and feedback is important for driving effective self-regulation (Sadler, 2010). We will showcase several novel initiatives we have introduced in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol, including a student partnership project to co-create an assessment and feedback portfolio (AFP) with interactive assessment landscapes; converting our AFP from a voluntary activity to a summative assessment to ‘force’ our final year UG students to reflect and act on their feedback; introducing a regular Biological Sciences ‘feedback café’ to promote dialogic feedback, co-creating a new programme of assessments for a Biological Sciences professional placement year and a scaffolding our peer-assisted study scheme (PASS) around assessments.