On the 20th January Mark Kerrigan and Mark Clements from the School of Life Sciences presented a very effective seminar entitled: ‘Supporting face-to-face tutoring and enhancing the student experience of assessment & feedback - A JISC funded project (e-Reflect)’ as the first in a series of seminars in learning and teaching organised by Westminster Exchange. This session considered aspects of the work they are doing, with other colleagues, to support students’ learning from feedback on assessment. The team has built on work with students to identify their perceptions and needs in relation to feedback, and how this ties in with staff views. They have created a web-based self-evaluative and reflective tool, linked to the students’ own courseworks, which helps students identify generic areas for improvement in their assessment performance across a number of modules. This information is immediately shared with the student’s tutor who can then work with them to develop a strategy for improvement, though online activity and face-to-face interactions.
Mark and Mark addressed a number of issues in relation to the development of this tool and the training and support needed to implement it; it is now being used across level 4 in Life Sciences and has received some very good feedback from both staff and students. The project team is keen to extend this work to other areas of the University so please get in touch with them if you are interested in developing this for your students.
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