Assessment enhancement - national consensus guidelines, policy and practice in Technology Enhanced Assessment in Health Professions Education

Technological advancements have revealed previously unimaginable possibilities to innovate assessment practice. The use of technology through all parts of the educational assessment 'lifecycle' (including immersive design, adaptive testing and authentic simulation) allows educators to focus on increasingly personalised assessment and feedback. Nevertheless, the potential benefits of artificial intelligence are counter balanced by complex ethical and academic dilemmas about the use, misuse and misapplication of machine based learning/learning analytics.

These advances present an ideal opportunity to refresh the international Ottawa consensus guidance in Technology Enhanced Assessment - and this work focuses on theory informed practice, demonstrable impact and widely accessible resources o support all learners, faculty and institutions. This work sits as part of the 2020 Ottawa conferences which seek to transform healthcare through excellence in assessment and evaluation.

Collaborators:

• Richard Fuller (group leader; Liverpool; UK),

• Vishna Nadarajah (IMU, Malaysia),

• Tamsin Treasure-Jones (Learning toolbox, http://ltb.io/company/),

• Colin Lumsden (Manchester, UK);

• Eeva Pyörälä (Helsinki, Finland),

• Christof Daetwyler (Drexel, USA),

• Viktoria Joynes (Liverpool, UK)