Using research to inform the assessment feedback process
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The document discusses student dissatisfaction with assessment feedback in Wales, highlighting that it has been the lowest area of satisfaction since 2005. It suggests that current feedback mechanisms do not meet student needs, as students prefer feedback that supports their learning rather than the efficiency of assessors. The conclusion recommends redesigning assessment sheets to improve the student experience.
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Using research to inform the assessment feedback process
- 1. Research Teaching Practice in Wales 2011 ConferenceUsing research to inform the assessment feedback process.Mark JacksonUniversity of Wales Newport
- 2. National Student Survey‘Assessment & Feedback’ is the lowest area of student satisfaction in all surveys since 2005, regardless of institution, background, or course. ‘The great NUS feedback amnesty” 2010
- 3. 2009 National Student Survey (NSS)“Students were significantly less satisfied about the feedback that they received than their overall learning experience”
- 4. Many institutions are relying on feedback mechanisms that are appropriate to the quality assurance and audit systems of contemporary Higher Education but not to the needs of students.
- 7. Jonathon ReidBA(Hons) Interactive Media 2011
- 17. Initial findings suggest that the viewer (students) reads the assessment sheet in a traditional direction, and does not ‘search’ for the grade first.
- 18. Conclusion To improve the student experience of assessment feedback, UWN should consider the re-design of the standard assessment sheet in order to support the needs of the student and not the efficiencyof the assessor.