Assessment Design Inventory
The Assessment Design Inventory (ADI) has been developed as an instrument that colleagues on university teaching programmes can use either as a research tool or as a stimulus/teaching tool for debate and staff development.
The first version of the ADI consisted of 68 items and was piloted on a sample of 29 lecturers from one UK university. The original items were developed from over 600 items constructed from 84 interviews with lecturers (new and experienced) from 18 disciplines, in 5 UK institutions.
The second version of the ADI consisted of 40 items and was completed online by 586 participants from 66 HEIs who were either studying on a HE teaching course or had in the last two years obtained an HE teaching qualification.
The two factor version of the ADI which is presented here is the third and latest iteration of a number of research studies to develop and refine this instrument. Its structure has been developed from a factor analysis of the data collected on version two.
This version consists of 18 items:
- 3 contextual items
- 7 ‘desirable practice’ items
- 8 ‘constraints’ items
Word versions of the ADI questionnaire and score interpretation documents are available by clicking on the links below:
| Colleagues are asked to note that the ADI is still being developed and the results of the analyses are currently being written up for a forthcoming journal publication. For this reason, anyone intending to use the ADI is asked in the first instance to contact Professor Lin Norton, Liverpool Hope University, nortonl@hope.ac.uk |
