Feedback and Assessment (BKE)
This module focuses on deepening the skills you apply as a teacher in feedback and assessment situations. We approach this theme through several topics, including assessing growth potential, giving feedback effectively and designing meaningful feedback loops within the teaching programme, dealing with threats to one's own judgement, and finally managing group and integral assessments.
After completing this module, you will receive the BKE certificate. With this, you will demonstrate that you:
- Are capable of carefully examining the student's knowledge, insight and skills. You test your judgement on this using the quality criteria for assessment. These are validity, reliability, feasibility and transparency;
- Are aware that feedback and assessment are linked to the teaching-learning process, whereby the feedback cycle and the teaching cycle contribute to assuring the quality of assessment;
- Can gain insight into the student's individual development through systematic assessment and feedback;
- Are aware of the assessment effects that can influence assessment ability. In addition, you are familiar with measures to make assessment as fair as possible and know how to discuss and improve this in the case of integral assessment by a committee.
The first group of the Feedback and Assessment module has already started, and the group beginning on 4 December is fully booked. Due to high demand, we’re planning a third group in February. Exact dates will follow soon.
Do you have a question about assessment and want to earn your BKE certificate? Sign up for the waiting list via didactiek@ahk.nl. As soon as the dates are confirmed, we’ll notify you.
The module is specifically for teachers with a minimum 0.4 FTE appointment, and for those with smaller appointments who are involved in assessment tasks. If you fall outside this category but are still interested, feel free to register! We will contact you to discuss participation options.
Practical information
- The module is compulsory for all AHK teachers with an appointment of 0.4 fte or greater and who engage in feedback and assessment during the teaching process as examiners;
- This module is mandatory for obtaining the Basic Teaching Qualification (BTQ).
- The study load is 40 hours of which 20 hours are self-study.
On-site sessions and self-study. The language of instruction is bilingual, both English and Dutch. You learn by working on participants' practical issues.
For this module, we use Leerpodium.
We offer several starting times in school year 24/25. Prior to the training you will receive a preparatory assignment.
Starting moment 2 spring 2025 - meetings are on Thursday afternoons from 14:00 to 17:00 hours:
- 17 April 2025
- 22 May 2025
- 11 September 2025
- 9 October 2025
There are two optional days for assessments (Note: on one of these two days you will take your assessment for which you will agree on an appropriate time slot with your group)
- 6 November 2025
- 20 November 2025
Starting moment 3 spring 2025 - meetings are on Tuesday afternoons from 13:00 to 16:00 hours:
- 22 April 2025
- 3 June 2025
- 16 September 2025
- 14 October 2025
There are two optional days for assessments (Note: on one of these two days you will take your assessment for which you will agree on an appropriate time slot with your group)
- 11 November 2025
- 18 November 2025
You will learn in a group with up to 12 AHK colleagues.
Content of the module
For the preparatory assignment, you will watch an introductory video by the trainers. Based on this video, you will work on the assignment which focuses on a series of reflective questions. You will hand in the completed assignment to the course's digital learning environment before the start of the module.
There are a total of five physical meetings. Four of them are thematic. During the meetings, participants' individual learning wishes and questions are taken into account. Before each meeting, you receive a digital content introduction at home as preparation. The fifth meeting focuses on the assessment.
Meeting 1: Assessing growth
How is assessing growth related to the admission requirements and attainment targets of your academy/programme? During this session, we translate the validity question to teaching practice: are we really assessing what we also want to assess
Meeting 2: Integral assessment
The theme of this meeting further explores committee and group assessment. How do you do that as reliably as possible?
Meeting 3: How do you ensure the quality of assessment?
This meeting focuses on the quality of assessment. How do you comply with the quality criteria for the various forms of assessment used within your academy/programme?
Meeting 4: Feedback/assessment cycle
What does the feedback and test cycle look like within your own academy/programme? And how does that cycle work? These are questions we will explore and answer further during the fourth meeting.
Meeting 5: (peer) assessment
The last meeting focuses on (peer) assessment.
Throughout the course, you will work on your BKE dossier. This file consists of two assignments:
1. Implementation assignment
This is a tangible result that is directly applicable in the daily testing practice of the AHK, such as:
- An updated assessment structure;
- A training initiative organised for colleagues;
- For lecturers who teach theoretical subjects, this could be a revised examination.
2. Reflection assignment
This is a short reflection on your own actions and expertise development in testing and assessment.
Basic Teaching Qualification
This module is a compulsory component for obtaining your Basic Teaching Qualification (BTQ). Do you already hold a BTQ? Then you no longer need to take this module.