Our Assessment Innovation Fund pilots: EasyCorrect: Edword platform

About the pilot 

EasyCorrect will run a pilot project to test whether their Edword platform can offer a more transparent and personalised solution for formative assessment practices where learners are engaging in written assignments. Edword is an online toolbox that supports teachers in further Education to create, reuse and share feedback while learning from how their students spend their time and engage with feedback.   

The first co-funded project between NCFE and Ufi VocTech Trust, the pilot is looking to disrupt how students and teachers interact in the learning processes of written assignments and show that the Edword solution can free up time for more personalised feedback, leading to increased student engagement and improved learning outcomes.

Throughout this pilot the following assumptions will be tested:

1. Edword saves time for teachers on repetitive processes thereby freeing up time for more personalised feedback.

2. It increases engagement of learners by making feedback engagement systemic, interactive, timely and measurable.

3. All benefit from the data stored and displayed so that each can see where most benefit is achieved. The pilot links with five of the guiding principles of assessment innovation.