Presenter: Deirdre Robson
Parallel Session 2, 11.55am-12.35pm
The aim of this presentation is to present the findings of the project undertaken as a result of a Feedback Research Award given at the Teaching & Learning Conference, 2014. The Feedback Project has been undertaken over the academic year 2014-2015.
The academic literature agrees that assessment and good quality feedback are central to student learning. As Hounsell argues (2003: 67) feedback plays a decisive role in student learning and development as students learn more effectively when they know how well they are doing and what they need to do to improve. However, over the years it has come to be agreed that assessment and feedback are not just central to student learning, but that feedback is an issue within UK HE students’ perceptions of, and satisfaction with, higher education (Jessop, 2013: 6). Indeed, there seems to be a mismatch between institutional and lecturers’ views of what constitutes effective feedback, and student perceptions of the same, which feeds back into student satisfaction and experience. In focussing on the experience of L5 students within the Media field in ESADM, a number of potential issues have been identified as of interest: student self-perceptions of feedback comments and feedback processes and their assessment of the various formats of assessment they have experienced as UWL students; the issue of students’ ‘academic literacy’ and the impact of this upon their reactions to and ability to correctly interpret the feedback they are given; the impact of alternative formats and/ or e-learning/digital technologies on students’ self-perceptions and understandings of assessment feedback. Research Project findings will be presented and some extrapolations proposed.
References
- Hounsell, D. (2003) Student Feedback, Learning and Development. In Slowery, M. and Watson, D. (eds) Higher Education and the Lifecourse. Maidenhead: Open University Press, pp 67-78.
- Jessop, T., El Hakim, Y., Gibbs, G., Hyland, P., Reavey, D. and Scott, I. (2013) NTFS Project Final Report: TESTA: Transforming the Experience of Students through Assessment. Available online at: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/detail/ntfs/ntfsproject_winchester09 (Accessed on 12 April 2014).
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