Action plan to improve academic feedback created in Faculty workshop

Action plan priorities

• Follow the UCL Arena booklet,  Developing good feedback practices: 6 key steps
• Develop/adopt a standard template for feedback on each module, or ideally across an entire programme –with a “how to improve” box to directly advise the student on how they can progress to a higher grade
• Use peer dialogue sessions between groups of markers on modules to review each other’s feedback – this will also mean that staff will complete their peer dialogue requirements
• Run pre-module or pre-marking workshops of markers to ensure consistency between markers
• Sampling by programme leaders of feedback to monitor quality and speed of turnaround, and direct communication with those providing late or poor quality feedback
• Reward and recognition for good performance – how much marking you have done and whether it has been timely and of good quality mentioned in appraisal. This would of course be balanced with all the other activities our staff are engaged in
• Exploiting technological solutions, such as MyFeedback and the new personal tutoring system (to be trialled from January in UCL's Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care (IEHC), Institute of Health Informatics (IHI) and Institute for Global Health (IGH)
• Replicating IEHC and IGH surveys of staff teaching to facilitate a more equitable distribution of the burden of feedback among a broader range of staff
• Inter-module comparison of standards via more cross module workshops of markers.