Cathy Elliott: Have fun, be flexible, and encourage feedback in your portfolio

Professor Dr Cathy Elliott is Vice Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at University College London (UCL), UK. She teaches a political science class on nature and supports over 1,000 faculty and 7,000 students in the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at UCL.

In this episode she gives an update on what she has achieved since her first episode in May 2023 and what she's excited about in regards to portfolios. She shares how the Geography Department is going to use portfolios in a programmatic approach, starting in an overhauled first year and making the work in the portfolio the centre of the assessment strategy.

Connect with Cathy

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• UCL researcher profile

Resources

• Associate Professor Dr Fergus Green
• Professor Dr Jan Axmacher
• Campaign of the National Union of Students 'Mark my words, not my name'
• Pitt, Edd, & Winstone, Naomi (2018). The impact of anonymous marking on students’ perceptions of fairness, feedback and relationships with lecturers. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 43(7), 1183–1193.

Related episodes

• Prof Dr Cathy Elliott: Creativity and feedback in assessment portfolios
• Kate Mitchell, MEd: Deliberate and programmatic design
• Dr Mark Glynn, PFHEA: Take a programmatic approach to assessment with portfolios

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Production information
Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward