assessment special interest group meeting exploring the national student survey: assessment and...
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Assessment Special Interest Group MeetingExploring the National Student Survey: Assessment and feedback issues13/05/2008
Presented by Williams.J, Kane.D (2008)
Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre
Key Recommendations
• Data collected from institutional of NSS surveys provides a major source of information on students perceptions of their learning experience and should be used to inform enhancement-led activities to benefit students learning experiences
• Develop institutional student feedback and action cycles to inform continuous quality improvement processes. Highlighting areas of good practice and high priority areas for action
• Use data indicatively to identify areas for further investigation. Analysis should explore the specific reasons behind items that cause concern.
• Actions taken as a result of feedback received must be made transparent and communicated clearly to students
• Recognise that effective change cannot be implemented in the short-term and requires concerted action over many years
Effective Practices identified
• Setting realistic targets for achievable turnaround time on assessed work
• Making the schedule of feedback on assignments clearer to students
• Timetabling of assignments more evenly through the academic year to avoid bottlenecks
• Instituting an effective monitoring system for the timing and placing of assessments
• Providing more timely feedback through activities such as assessment in class time
• Increasing the number of staff to ensure better staff-student contact on feedback issues
• Providing feedback in alternative
• Increasing the number of staff to ensure better staff-student contact on feedback issues
• Providing feedback in alternative forms• Involving students in feedback processes, for
example, using them as co-ordinators• Introducing standardised feedback systems, such as
standardised forms, hand-in and return procedures• Ensuring feedback is given promptly and not delayed
by external moderation• Auditing practice within an institution and
encouraging the spread of effective practice
• Ensuring that assessed work provides a basis for future improvement by:
a) Indicating how future improvement might be achieved
b) Ensuring learning structures (such as semesterised modules) do not foreclose on the possibility of improvement
• Using one-to-one tutorials for feedback on assessed work
Some questions …
• To what extent are these recommendations and practices occurring in your institutions ?
• Do you have such examples of good practice
• How can we foster the development of these recommendations and examples of good practice within our areas ?
Contact Us
• Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre
www.health.heacademy.ac.uk