We know that formative assessment provides two great virtues to students, the ability to use assessment for learning and the rich feedback they receive from educators. At Inspera we can help by providing institutions, educators and students with technology to make the creation, delivery, submission and feedback as simple as possible. Remove friction and accelerate the speed of feedback getting into the hands of your students so that they can benefit from it.
The value of formative assessment and feedback is widely established. The operational challenge has three parts: first, an environment that makes it easy for students to submit, receive feedback, iterate and re-submit. Emails weren’t designed for this. Disparate upload areas provide no cohesive structure for iteration. Second, getting rich, high quality feedback into the hands of students is a key part of them reading and acting on it. Slow down that delivery, provide it in accessible corners of your technological ecosystem, disengage it from their work and any of these can quickly diminish the value of the feedback an educator spent time crafting. Third, educators need flexible tools to create their feedback. Platform fatigue of having to log into lots of different places to leave feedback, coupled with having to remember how they all work, impacts educators ability to efficiently deliver high quality feedback.
Inspera offers a dedicated digital assessment platform designed to transform formative assessment and feedback from an resource-intensive activity spanning multiple software, into a single scalable and user-friendly workflow. By making it operationally simple to offer multiple attempts and submissions spaces, linked to each other, academics can chart process and progress, with students easily seeing the feedback linked to each iteration.
Grouping tasks to assess process not just the productThrough use of our assessment path capability, tasks can be grouped together and feedback provided overall. This structure allows you to assess process and thinking to reward the learning trajectory, not just the final polished product. Assessment paths can be set up so that tasks run in serial or parallel, scaffolded as you see fit. In serial, you could require students to demonstrate their current progress at specific intervals or a number of times of their choosing. In parallel, you can construct specific spaces for different task types.
Emailing documents back and forth between student and educator is not sustainable, desirable or efficient. Uploading disparate documents that standalone neither helps bring them together to demonstrate process, nor is an effective way of providing feedback. Institutions need to be able to create nuanced workflows that aid students and faculty to have dialogue and provide the opportunities for feedback to be directly applied to the next stage of the process, and easily returned to at any point.
Multiple attempts controlled by student or educatorInspera’s multiple attempts capabilities speak to process and continuous development. You can choose to let candidates decide when they take attempts or upload a document, or gate each attempt by time or when a grader permits another attempt. Each attempt benefits from the same rich question types, delivery options and feedback mechanisms within Inspera Assessment.
By automating the mechanics of iterative submission, institutions can normalise continuous learning without inflating staff workloads. It provides a reliable framework for scaffolded, continuous assessment, enabling students to safely explore and learn from feedback at their own pace. For administrators, it eliminates the manual intervention required to clean, cross-reference, and reconcile multiple student files or attempts.
Classification AI to improve efficiencyInspera Graide is an explainable classification AI engine that learns directly from your expert academics in real time. Rather than relying on unvetted large language models, it learns from the human feedback and applies those exact human written comments across identical student points across the an assessment cohort.
Accomplishes an objective reduction in feedback time by up to 90% while maintaining strict human in the loop governance and without resorting to unauditable and untraceable large language models.
Multiple methods for an educator to craft their feedbackInspera gives educators a comprehensive choice of feedback mechanisms within a single workspace, so that they can deploy the precise intervention required for the task. Educators can select and alternate between granular in-line comments attached directly to highlighted text, contextual page notes, structured rubrics, and pre-written feedback authored with the question. This is supplemented by candidate specific explanations for holistic individual feedback, assessment level cohort feedback to address overarching thematic trends across a student group, and recorded audio feedback to enhance student engagement.
One size does not fit all when it comes to giving student, feedback. By equipping educators with a wide variety of feedback mechanisms and tools, they can deliver feedback aligned to both assessment and students without having to flick between multiple platforms. For the student, regardless of the different methods used, they can view all of their feedback directly from the student dashboard.
Give your students the timely feedback they need to improve.
Speak with our team to see how Inspera brings all your formative tasks and feedback tools into one clear system to improve feedback engagement.
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