Seminar on learning, assessment and feedback for our teachers

Are our assessment methods accomplishing what they should be accomplishing? Are we measuring the important things in the right way so that we can be sure students have really learned what we believe they should be learning? Is our feedback helping or hindering the process?

Good feedback is “the most powerfully positive thing we can do to improve student learning” – according Dr Phil Race, who is running the seminar. Professor Race teaches at Leeds Met University and last year won a UK National Teaching Fellowship.

All the week, EHL professors have been thinking about why, when and how to use feedback, and what sort of feedback to give. Dr Race plunges faculty into a learning situation so that they themselves can directly experience the ways in which feedback can be a positive force or a negative force.

Professors have been reflecting on the ways in which feedback can be useful, exciting and motivating - an invitation to grow and discover – or on the other hand unhelpful and discouraging– a destructive force to be avoided!