Action plan to improve academic feedback created in Faculty workshop
17 October 2018
Teaching staff in UCL Population Health Sciences explore new approaches, including compulsory pre-marking workshops to ensure consistency
Twenty teaching staff in UCL Population Health Sciences took part in a recent workshop to improve academic feedback across the faculty.
The workshop was convened by Vice Dean (Education) Mike Rowson, who shared the faculty’s variable results regarding assessment and feedback from the annual Postgraduate Taught Student Experience Survey.
He stressed the importance of prompt feedback as one of the fundamental (and evidence-based) principles of good practice. UCL policy is that every student should receive feedback within one calendar month of the submission deadline of each piece of assessed work.
Pippa Bark-Williams shared the approach taken by UCL Health Informatics to improve assessment and feedback, working with student Bernard Nsah, who presented the student perspective (case study under development).
Participants explored a number of ways forward, resulting in a prioritised action plan to be recommended to all Directors of Education and Department Graduate Tutors in the Faculty.
Contact Dr Jenny Griffiths in the Arena Centre for Research-Based Education to get support and resources in your own department, institute or faculty.