- Tuesday, 27 July 2021
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm - Zoom – further details provided upon registration
Hot Topic Theme: Feedback and Assessment
Despite the importance of feedback, research suggests that traditional feedback practices have often failed to improve student outcomes. Recently there has been a reconceptualization of feedback and a call for a re-examination of the way feedback practices are enacted to enable feedback uptake.
In this workshop, Dr Peter Grainger shares preliminary research findings related to recent frameworks that purport to enable feedback uptake. Specifically, he will look at concepts such as:
- assessment for learning
- feedback literacy
- feedback loops
- connectedness
- assessment design
- peer assessment/collaboration
- staged assessment, and
- student agency
Preliminary findings indicate that feedback uptake, leading to enhanced student assessment outcomes, is enhanced by a connected assessment design and a conducive learning environment characterised by ample opportunities for peer collaboration on assessment activities in tutorials. This focus is driven by a desire to design assessment to ensure feedback, which is by definition formative in nature, is noticed, processed, engaged with reflected on and importantly, evidenced by students in subsequent assessment products to improve assessment outcomes.
Recommended pre-reading
Grainger, P. (2015). How do pre service teacher education students respond to assessment feedback? Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2015.1096322
Guest Speaker
Dr Peter Grainger, University of the Sunshine Coast, has published regularly on various assessment focused issues including grading tools, moderation, feedback and peer review processes regularly over the past 13 years, evidenced by over 30 peer reviewed publications in quality journals and books. A significant recent publication is an edited collection of research based articles by leading assessment experts through the world, entitled Facilitating Student Learning and Engagement in Higher Education Through Assessment Rubrics. Dr Grainger’s recent research focus is on assessment for learning, feedback literacy, feedback loops, connectedness, assessment design, peer assessment/collaboration, staged assessment, and student agency.
More upcoming sessions:
Wednesday 28 July
Owning the rubric: Co-constructing assessment rubrics with students | 28 July
Wednesday 11 August
Co-constructing rubrics with your students: An experience from Alison McEwen | 11 August
What are Hot Topics?
Hot Topics are curriculum and teaching themes that have emerged in UTS from student learning experiences, student feedback surveys (SFS), consultations and other strategic projects. They are a series of professional development and engagement opportunities to enhance courses and provide longer-term support through community building and sustained critical dialogues.
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