We are pleased to announce that Dr. Geertje van Keulen from the School of Medicine will be coming to the School of Management, to talk about interventions in summative examinations that improve the student and staff experience – MCQs and seen exams.

The seminar will cover some of the advantages and disadvantages of MCQs as well as some more recent work undertaken by Geertje and colleagues in Medicine looking at seen examination questions. Their work on MCQs was published in the PLOS One 'Negatively-Marked MCQ Assessments That Reward Partial Knowledge Do Not Introduce Gender Bias Yet Increase Student Performance and Satisfaction and Reduce Anxiety' http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0055956

The seminar should be of interest to staff looking at diversifying their assessments, enhancing student performance as well as those developing their pedagogic research.

Dr van Keulen is an Associate Professor in Swansea University Medical School and the Lead-Organiser of Soapbox Science Swansea.

Teas and coffee will be served on arrival.