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Roberta Perli

E-assessment Support Officer

My background is in foreign language teaching and bilingual translation. Before joining ESU I was a language coordinator at the London School of Economics and the University of Bristol Language Centre and have taught on a range of undergraduate and Life Long learning language units for over fifteen years. During my teaching career I have taken part in a number of educational projects which, from various perspectives, study the use of technology to enhance language teaching and complement the traditional ‘face- to- face’ mode. I have also studied and developed the use of online learning environments, online tutorials, and related in-class technology and e-Assessment.   

I was appointed to the role of  e-Assessment Support Officer in 2006 to provide advice on the pedagogical benefit of e-assessment and support the introduction of Questionmark Perception, a dedicated online assessment system, as well as develop procedural and pedagogical guidelines, namely 'e-Assessment lifecycle' and 'writing effective assessment questions for online delivery; principles and guidelines, for the implementation of small and large scale online formative and summative assessment. 

I run individual and group consultation on e-assessment practice and training for Questionmark Perception and a range of staff development workshops with other colleagues as well as the TLHE (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) modules 'e-learning' and 'assessment and feedback'.

I am the faculty liaison for Arts and I work closely with the Arts e-lan (e-learning advisory network) representative and the local e-learning support team on a range of projects to promote the use of technology to enhance learning and to implement faculty wide e-learning projects. I was one of the founding members of TELLING (Technology Enhanced Language Learning Interest Group) that was set up in 2010 to promote innovation and good practice amongst language practitioners.  

I was born in the Italian city of Rimini, a province of the Emilia-Romagna region. I studied modern foreign languages at the 'Università di Urbino' where I was awarded the degree of Bachelors of Arts in Modern Foreign Languages. Subsequently, I did further specialized study in translation at the University of Westminster and received the degree of Master of Arts in Bilingual Translations. I was recognised as an Italian teacher by the UK Department of Education in 1996.

Some of the projects I have been involved in:

• Communitec project. Language Centre, London School of Economics, 2003 Computer Assisted Language Learning for teachers (http://tinyurl.com/3kgxljm, page 14)
• Introducing online assessment for Level 2 Italian Continuous Assessment, Bristol 2005A one year pilot to investigate the potential of the University’s VLE to run online assessment for grammar and listening assessments and evaluate the effectiveness of instant feedback. (http://tinyurl.com/3nkvu4m, page 17) 
• Self Access Material (SAM), Language Centre, Bristol 2005 Online tutorials for level 2 students preparing for their year abroad.
• Electronically mediated peer-assessment, a case study(Presented at the e-learning symposium of the LLAS subject centre,       2011)

Contact Details

Tel: 0117 331 4267  Internal: 14267
Fax: 0117 331 4206
Email: r.perli@bristol.ac.uk
Education Support Unit, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH