Tansy Jessop is Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students at the University of Bristol. She leads ‘Transforming the Experience of Students through Assessment’ (TESTA), a research and change project which has challenged education leaders across the sector to re-imagine assessment and feedback from a student perspective.

• Foreword Acknowledgements Part I: TESTA’s research and change process Introduction: Why another book on assessment and feedback? Chapter 1: A research methodology for transforming students’ experience Chapter 2: The TESTA method: tools, techniques, and approaches Part II: Alienation and engagement Chapter 3: Alienation in assessment: Opening Pandora’s box Chapter 4: The wider context of alienation in higher education Part III: Engaging assessment and feedback: From analysis to practice Chapter 5. From alienation to engagement in assessment design Chapter 6. From alienation to engagement: Realising the promise of feedback Chapter 7: From alienation to engagement: Internalising standards Chapter 8: Reflections on TESTA’s educational change process Part IV: The future: New horizons and challenges Epilogue: TESTA in a post-pandemic world Appendix A: TESTA case study: BA (Hons) X: Poppletown University Appendix B: Assessment experience questionnaire (V3.3) Appendix C: Assessment experience questionnaire (V4.0) Appendix D: Assessment experience questionnaire (V5.1) Appendix E: TESTA Focus Group questionsIndex