Student Feedback Project

This was an LTSN-funded project consisting of a series of self studies to gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which student feedback can be obtained and used to help teachers improve their knowledge of how students learn and what they have learnt.

Twenty four departments, 6 from each of the LTSN Subject Centres for:

• Bioscience
• The Built Environment (CEBE)
• Art, Design and Communications (ADC-LTSN)
• Education (ESCALATE)

were involved in the project. Particpants were given an overview of the project and a series of potential methods to elicit feedback. They were then asked to prepare a plan for their department and attend a workshop to discuss these plans.

Download initial project material:

Project summary

John's personal position paper

Watch John's presentation of the need for formative evaluation

John also produced 6 potential methodologies

• Continue/Start/Stop
• Letter to next year's students
• Letter to the lecture for the next time the programme is delivered
• Talk aloud protocol
• Dynamic list of questions
• Interviews

The project was completed in Summer 2004 and generated 21 case studies. (Note that these case studies are an evaluation of the methodologies used, and not of the quality of the teaching).

Download the case studies (as pdfs):

Bioscience case study (1)

Bioscience case study (2)

Bioscience case study (3)

Bioscience case study (4)

Bioscience case study (5)

Bioscience case study (6)

Case studies from other disciplines

John Cowan's Project Summary: Word file or pdf