Feedback

The UK Centre for Bioscience supports feedback through publications, events and funding.

Publications

Bioscience Bulletin 22 (Autumn 2007) was a themed edition on Feedback and Feed-Forward and includes articles on: Feedback to large practical classes Self-assessment - more effective than tutor feedback? Feed-forward to improve academic writing Further Bulletin articles on feedback include: Freestone, N. (2009) Instant Feedback via Peer Assessment. Bulletin 26 page 2 McLaughlin, P. (2009) eFeedback Gets Personal. Bulletin 28 page 3

Student Short Guide: Feedback - make it work for you! This short guide brings together advice for students on making the most of feedback, with information and guidance on who could be providing feedback, how they might receive feedback, what they might receive it on, how to use feedback to improve their work and how they can give useful feedback. The Feedback Short Guide can be downloaded in pdf format from our Student Short Guides webpage, we also have a limited number of paper copies available - please contact the Centre to request copies.

The Assessment Briefing brings together resources and references on various themes within assessment and has a section on Feedback and Feedforward with an introduction written by Chris Glover and Claire Craig, an extended version of the introduction is available.

Bioscience Education

• Glover, C. and Brown, E. (2006) Written Feedback for Students: too much, too detailed or too incomprehensible to be effective? Bioscience Education E-Journal. Vol 7

• Bevan, R., Badge J., Cann, A., Willmott, C. and Scott, J. ( 2008) Seeing Eye-to-Eye? Staff and Student Views on Feedback. Bioscience Education Vol. 12

• Parry, D., Larsen, C. and Walsh, C. (2008) Summative Assessment with Formative Feedback: An Intervention in a Small Bioscience Cohort. Bioscience Education, Vol.11.

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Funded Projects

A system to deliver oral and visual feedback on-line, personal to each student
Paul McLaughlin, University of Edinburgh

Does providing academic feedback to students via mp3 audio files enhance learning?
Stephen Merry, Staffordshire University

Events

Effective Feedback to Students
22/02/2006 - University of Wolverhampton

Effective Feedback to Students
26/01/2006 - London Knowledge Lab

Feedup, feedback, feedforward
20/10/2011 - University of Glasgow

• Using Technology to Enhance Feedback Event, Roehampton University, 14th December 2010
• ASSET Project: Moving Forward through Feedback presentation at University of Leed's Building Capacity Project December 2010

Resources and projects from the sector

• Asset Project: Moving forward through feedback. This JISC funded project uses video to enhance feedback provision and engagement for students and staff based at the University of Reading.
• 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.
• The FAST (Formative Assessment in Science Teaching) project aimed to examine how students’ formative assessment experiences affect their learning. In doing so it looked at how feedback to students can be made more effective by maximising the learning students gain from their assessments.

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