Assessment Matters

Seminar Report (02/07/12)

FEEDBACK – EVIDENCE OF A MARKED IMPROVEMENT?

 Tuesday 3^rd July 2012, OPTOM

 

Aim:

To enable participants to identify practical actions to enhance academic feedback to students within their local context.

 

Intended Outcomes:

At the end of the event participants will be able to:

• Illustrate how academic feedback has been enhanced within other institutions in UK higher education;
• Identify ways of improving feedback that better meet students’ needs;
• Describe the range of actions being taken across the University to implement the University’s Academic Feedback to Students Policy;
• Give examples of effective practice that have been adopted within the University, and;
• Propose enhancements to be adopted within local practice.

 

Programme for the day

9.30   – 10.00
Arrival and Registration
Tea and coffee will be available

10.00 – 10.10
Welcome and Introductions – Prof. Stephen Denyer,
Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education and Students

10.10 – 11.00
Keynote presentation – Prof. Margaret Price, Oxford Brookes University
Professor of Learning and Assessment at Oxford Brookes University and Director of the Pedagogy Research Centre including ASKe

11.00 – 11.50
The Student Perspective – Stephanie Lloyd, President Elect of NUS Wales

11.50 – 12.30
Reflections on progress made and plans for the future – Andy Lloyd,
Assessment Matters Project Manager

12.30 – 1.30
Lunch

1.30   – 2.30
‘Show and tell’ sessions

An opportunity for colleagues to join one of the below groups to talk about something they have done or tried to do to improve feedback, whether it worked or not.

• Using technology to help enhance feedback provision
• The Student Voice in feedback provision
• Hearts and Minds – changing perceptions of feedback in students and staff
• Assessment FOR learning – changing assessment to support feedback

2.30 – 3.00
Where now, what next

3.00
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