When students complete an assessment, as teachers, we then have an opportunity to respond through our marking and feedback. This is a wonderful chance to do a little more teaching, particularly individualised teaching, through our feedback.
2. Outline of session
Why do we provide feedback?
What are the main challenges with giving useful
feedback?
How might we address these challenges
Some new ways forward – what will you do?
3. Some introductions
Who am I?
Who is in the room?
What are your questions about feedback?
Recording the session
5. What is the purpose of feedback?
Confidence Building: Feedback can be used to give encouragement to
students, to help them to strive to further improve their work in the
future
Achievement: give students an idea of how well they have achieved
Performance Improvement: Feedback can be used to provide
individuals with information on how performance improvement can be
implemented, and improvement plans produced.
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6. More reasons to give feedback
Identify strengths and weaknesses: To enable the
students to identify their strengths and weaknesses
within the module/task set.
Correction: Correct errors, and point out to students
information that they might have missed.
Clarification and accountability: where feedback is
used to demonstrate/clarify how a specific grade was
reached- accountability.
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More reasons to give feedback
Identify strengths and weaknesses: To enable the
students to identify their strengths and weaknesses
within the module/task set.
Correction: Correct errors, and point out to students
information that they might have missed.
Clarification and accountability: where feedback is
used to demonstrate/clarify how a specific grade was
reached- accountability.
8. And some more…
Student experience: where feedback can be seen to
enhance the quality of student educational experiences
Feedback to aid intellectual achievement: where
feedback is the assessment of outcomes generated
through undertaking assignments, this is the teaching
opportunity that feedback offers.
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What is the purpose of feedback?
Confidence Building
Achievement
Performance Improvement
Identify strengths and weaknesses
Correction
Clarification
Student experience
Intellectual achievement
12. Good feedback…
Facilitates self assessment
Encourages teacher and peer dialogue
Clarifies what good performance is
Provides opportunity to close the gap
Delivers high quality information
Encourages positive self esteem
Provides information to the teacher
13. What are the main challenges with giving useful
feedback?
How might we address these challenges?
14. Marking and Feedback: some challenges
The challenges of numbers….
Individualizing feedback when marking a lot of assessments
Time to provide feedback
15. The challenge of judgement
Difficulties in assigning marks to assignments
Using assessment criteria and rubrics
17. The challenge of not being heard
Dealing with frustration when students don’t take
on board feedback
Ensuring balance between positive and
constructive feedback
18. The challenge of excellence
Providing feedback for excellent assessments
21. What will you do differently?
What were the challenges that you identified at the
beginning?
Have you any thoughts about what you might do
differently?
22. Some resources
NUS Benchmarking tool for assessment and feedback
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/teaching-learning/pdfs/NUS-
assessment-and-feedback-benchmarking-tool.pdf
NUS Charter on assessment and feedback
https://wiki.ucl.ac.uk/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=
42009080
UNSW resources on assessment and feedback
https://teaching.unsw.edu.au/assessment