Assessment & Feedback – Dr Neil Hughes, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
March 24, 2015
Dr Neil Hughes discusses an example of an assessment strategy, its key features, the implementation in a programme and the impact on NSS over a period of two years. Dr Hughes is the Director of Modern Language Teaching at CLAS (UoN). This talk was given as part of the ‘Assessment strategies that work’ event, held at …
Feedback as dialogue
December 3, 2013
Dr Richard Tunney: “The School of Psychology has made a number of changes to the feedback that students receive on their assessed work. This has been largely driven by feedback from students to us in Learning Community Fora (and their predecessors) and the National Student Survey. I suppose we could think about the quality of …
The School of English report on TESTA Audit
November 27, 2013
Jo Robinson and Nathan Waddell: “As part of our ongoing commitment to improving feedback and assessment practices, the School of English bid for funding from the 2012/13 Teaching Development Fund in order to carry out an audit of its assessment structures with a view to reshaping our practice. The audit was undertaken using the TESTA …
Using online portfolios to facilitate feedback, provide evidence of progress and encourage the development of academic skills’
August 14, 2013
David Button: Context: “CELE is an international centre based on three campuses, the UK, Malaysia and China. In the UK CELE run 4 terms of Pre-session English for Academic Purposes courses taking students at 4 levels of English competence. Students are a mixture of undergraduates and postgraduates. All 400+ students will be using an e-portfolio …
Feedback and its benefits
April 8, 2013
Students describe the feedback they’ve been getting and how learning from the feedback on one piece of work helps with improving performance on the next piece. Visit the University’s Studying Effectively website for more on learning at University.
Improving feedback quality and students’ use of feedback.
January 15, 2013
Dr Jo Robinson describes how she, and colleagues, give feedback to students via audio commentaries on their essays and how students make use of that feedback in future work. Dr Jo Robinson, School of English. This interview was carried out as part of the Study Skills project, run by Kim Lawson in Academic Support.
Engaging students with their feedback
April 19, 2012
Prof. Katharine Reid: “Stephen Marshall gave various motivations for changing the way we assess student work and was very clear that it was important to be able to demonstrate that the changes had delivered improvements. In terms of staff workload this can easily be achieved, but in terms of the factors that impact on student …
Verifying a student’s learning as part of staged progression on placement
January 26, 2010
Video >> Pam: “I think people have a possible idealistic view of what nursing is really about and then the placement actually teaches them what it really is about. And I think without a placement of any kind, without any practical experience, I don’t think as a qualified Nurse, you would be able to function or …
Giving constructive feedback and setting clear targets
Video >> Pam: “Right at the beginning we sit down, we work through what they – the goals they want to achieve and how they’re going to achieve them, and how they’re going to achieve the competencies, and basically today is to make sure that they are going to achieve their goals.” Alison: “They’ll point …
Recording feedback as a podcast and uploading it to WebCT
October 16, 2009
Video >> Interviewer: “How long will the podcast be?” Sarah Westwater-Wood: “In general they’re four to five minutes. I find that technically WebCT supports that really well and it’s a bitesize for students so they can take it shape their revision with it and it’s not a lecture the podcast is not being used to …
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