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Professional Development Event

Feedup, feedback, feedforward

Thursday 20th October 2011

University of Glasgow

Feedback and assessment are important drivers of what, when and how students learn. Despite much activity in this area students still have a number of difficulties learning from feedback and staff still have frustrations over student collection of feedback and their response to it. This event was co-organised by the ASSET project and provided further opportunities for consideration of good practice and issues surrounding feedback for learning. The event was grounded in the practicalities of bioscience teaching and explored the importance of dialogue and the potential of self- and peer- assessment to develop a 'self-regulated' learner who is ready to utilise feedback from a variety of sources. The event included contributions from the ASSET project, and presentations from various authors who have contributed to the second edition of the Centre's Learning Guide to Self- and Peer-assessment, copies of which, were available at the event.

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Programme

10.00

Registration; Tea and Coffee

10.20

Welcome and Introduction to the day
Steve Maw

10.30

Keynote: Effective feedback to students
Paul Orsmond, Staffordshire University
Followed by facilitated discussion

11.15

Peer assessment as a motivator and feedback mechanism
Mark Langan, Manchester Metropolitan University

11.35

Refreshments

11.50

 Examples of Practice
Improving Feedback Dialogue in Large First-Year Classrooms
Mark Huxham, Edinburgh Napier University

Using Peerwise in a Large First Year Biology class
Amanda Sykes, University of Glasgow

Video Feedback
Julian Park, ASSET Project, University of Reading

13.00

Lunch

13.45

Workshop session
Chance to use the GOALS framework to consider the feedback you give

Facilitated by Paul Orsmond

15.00

Swapshop Session
Short informal contributions from delegates on the topic of feedback

Self-Generated Feedback and Student Independence
Graham Scott, University of Hull

Breaking the Back of Peer Feedback
Paul McLaughlin, University of Edinburgh

How two staff can give effective feedback on science essay writing to 400 students and live to tell the tale!
Joe Gray, University of Glasgow

16.00

Reflections and close

 

 

Resources relevant to event

University of Leeds' (JISC funded) Building Capacity Project at http://www.sddu.leeds.ac.uk/lbc/

Feedback Bibliography www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/ftp/events/york290909/feedbackbibliog.pdf

Assessment Briefing which contains a section on feedback as well as other useful information on assessment.

Engage in feedback is an evidence-based website. It aims to enhance student learning by providing staff with ideas, tools and resources they can use to enhance the feedback they provide.

Website resources regarding Assessment for learning.

Assessment audit tool

Student Feedback Project. This is project consisting of a series of self studies to gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which feedback can be obtained from students and used to help teachers improve their knowledge of how students learn and what they have learnt.

Reports from previous feedback and assessment events
Feedback events:

Centre for Bioscience Event Report: Effective Feedback to Students - Wolverhampton, 22/02/2006 www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/events/wolv06.aspx

Assessment events:

UK Centre for Bioscience Event Report: Preventing and Designing Out Plagiarism - Leicester, 08/04/2008 www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/events/plagiarism080408.aspx

UK Centre for Bioscience Event Report: Learning Through Assessment - Southampton 08/01/2008 www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/events/soton080108.aspx

UK Centre for Bioscience Event Report: Learning through assessment - Newcastle 17/01/2007 www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/events/newcastle07.aspx

UK Centre for Bioscience Event Report: Effective Group Work - Abertay Dundee 05/10/2005 www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/events/abertay05.aspx

UK Centre for Bioscience Event Report: Assessment for Learning - Reading 13/04/2005 www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/events/read05.aspx