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Assessment

Getting better formative feedback to more students in less time

Parallel Session (C)

Facilitator: Prof. Phil Race, Leeds Metropolitan

Formative feedback is vitally important for students, but too often it reaches them too late, and they don't seem to take any notice of it. In this workshop we will explore how we can get feedback to students more quickly, AND spend much less time doing so. We will also look at how best we can make sure that students do indeed act on the feedback we give them.

Biographical Information
Phil Race leads highly interactive workshops (and keynotes) on assessment, learning and teaching in higher education. He publishes widely on such things, and details of his work can be found on his website www.phil-race.co.uk. His passion is about ‘making learning happen’, in an approachable way, without recourse to jargon, acronyms or elitism.

He started as a scientist, but gradually became an educational developer. He completely failed to retire in 1995, and has been even busier ever since. He plans to fail to retire again in June 2009, reaching the age when he must leave his part-time post at Leeds Metropolitan University. He plans to continue to travel the country (and world sometimes) running workshops for teaching staff. His work was recognised in 2007 by the Higher Education Academy awarding him a National Teaching Fellowship, and the status of ‘Senior Fellow’ of the Academy.
He is known for using lots of post-its in various colours for brainstorming and prioritisation group exercises at his workshops, and even for getting diners doing things with post-its at the odd after-dinner speech! He is also known for bringing humour into presentations and keynotes – but always with the purpose of highlighting important points here and there.

Home is Newcastle upon Tyne, most weekends, and a tiny flat above the shops in the middle of Leeds during the week, when not on trains or planes to everywhere else. His better half is Professor Sally Brown, currently Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at Leeds Metropolitan University.
His other passion is classical music, and he is an accomplished performer on the CD player and iPod, and now and then he runs residential musical weekends on orchestral music at Madingley Hall, University of Cambridge.

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