Topic assessment

[Albadylic]

We assess applicants but don't do any further assessments before EPA. Having a handle on who is progressing well, and who may be struggling will help us to manage additional support given.

Some ideas:

• Weekly self-assessments
• Mid-term assessments on the programmes
• End-of-term assessments on the programmes
• Individual checking of contributions on team projects (looking at commits and PR's to see who is contributing what)

[Albadylic]

• must be present on all programmes
• server-side week could be a solo project
• code review of individual contributions

[Albadylic]

Per topic assessments, e.g. multiple choice surveys via airtable

(We've done assessments before but not necessarily recorded how we're doing those, or evidenced the results)

@Psydwinder to find some time w/ @sofer to put together topic assessments

[Psydwinder]

2 extra questions added to the weekly feedback survey to help gauge the learners confidence with a specific topic. @Psydwinder to review and action this on a weekly basis. Any burning issues to be shared with the team on Discord.

[sofer]

This is an important medium-term issue. We should keep reviewing how we assess people and how they assess themselves.

[ivan-unfolds]

relates #707