Two images side by side. Left side shows hand placing star onto line of 4 stars, in white quote box. Right image shows pencil leaning against cartoon evaluation board with boxes ticked.
Not all evaluations are created equally. Research demonstrates that students can be biased in their feedback for a variety of reasons. What we do with this information could impact both ...
We held a one day student hackathon with 16 students from across a range of faculties and courses focusing on assessment. Seven themes emerged. ...
BILT's Joe Gould has created this infographic on recommendations provided by Pitt and Quinlan in their paper on 'Impacts of Higher Education and Feedback Policy and Practice on Students: A ...
Traditionally the core role of assessment is to measure students’ learning for the purposes of quality assurance. ‘What and how students learn depends to a major extent on how they ...
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How can we invite meaningful feedback from our students? What are creative ways to learn about what students are thinking and feeling? What are student beliefs on their curriculum experiences? ...
TESTA (transforming the experience of students through assessment) aims to improve the quality of student learning through addressing programme-level assessment. ...
BILT Student Fellow, discussing his experience of alternative (non-exam) assessments and the lessons that can be learned from this. ...
Asking the right questions gets the best data. ...
James details ways of giving feedback in an authentic context - I have been dwelling on the idea of Authentic Learning for a very long time now, probably as far ...
Spotlight on 'Voicing Vulnerability' It's lunchtime on Woodland Road. The autumn skylight floods in through the bay window at the Multifaith Chaplaincy. The meeting space is bustling with a few ...
'All kinds of feedback' A few months ago, I was sat in a conference when I got an email from one of the heads of department asking me if I ...
Published 04/10/2019 (you may also be interested in reading Assessment and Feedback) Feedback, when done right, can be a powerful tool for learning, but too often it is either ignored, ...
Zoe Backhouse is a BILT Student Fellow and fourth-year Liberal Arts student. Zine [definition]: some sort of publication, usually mass-produced by photocopying (in some cases scanned, put on the net, ...
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Research project & toolkit that investigated having to improve feedback and feedforward practices for students, in particular those on programmes with significant work-based placement learning. ...
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A project that utilised problem based activity to develop student engagement and understanding of statistics for planning psychological experiments. ...
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We spoke to Chris Rust, Professor Emeritus of Oxford Brookes University and author of ‘Assessment Literacy: The Foundation for Improving Student Learning’ and numerous other publications on assessment and pedagogy. ...
This interview  is with Naomi Winstone, who presented an excellent seminar on maximising the impact of feedback in March 2018. Naomi has helped to implement a new feedback system in ...
Browse the resources, or jump to a section using the page content: ReThinking Spaces University of Bristol Learning Space Principles Learning Spaces (edited by Diana G. Oblinger, eBook) Semiotic Social ...