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Category Archives: Feedback & Reflection
Structuring feedback on marking
Among my various duties here, I am responsible for overseeing undergraduate dissertations. This means I run group sessions during the year, organise and collate marks from colleagues supervising individual students. It’s something that I’ve done for many years and it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, Feedback & Reflection, Simon Usherwood
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Some Data on Baselining
This is a response to Chad’s recent post about baselining, because I’ve found it a useful practice. I pre-test in all of my intro to American courses (and have posted about it before), using a combination of the citizenship test … Continue reading
Are path dependencies good or bad in learning and teaching?
This past weekend, I’ve been lucky to spend time in Cornwall. And even more lucky to have had some amazing sunshine and heat. Because I’m me, while the kids scrambled over the rock pools, I found myself wondering about path … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Classroom Behavior, Feedback & Reflection, Learning, Problem solving, Simon Usherwood, Skills
Tagged path dependency
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Guest Blog: Getting Feedback
I’m very pleased to be able to introduce another guest post from Holly Snaith (Aston): if you’d like to contribute, then please just get in touch with any of us. Simon I was intending to write an entirely different post … Continue reading
ABCing Yourself
In reference to Simon’s post about using the ABC method to get formative “feedfoward” while a course is still running: After some end-of-semester reflection and a helpful, informative meeting with my department chairperson, it occurred to me that the ABC method … Continue reading
Posted in Feedback & Reflection, Chad Raymond, Assessment
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Getting formative feedback for yourself
My email inbox has several reminders that we are in the season of module evaluations. At Surrey, we run this centrally, with students completing forms online on each module and over a wider range of questions and I’m assuming that … Continue reading
The Success of Failure
A quick note to say that the quality of failure assignment that I instituted in my undergraduate courses this semester has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. The vast majority of my students responded to the assignment with great insight. In … Continue reading
Student Teaching II
My experiment with getting students to teach each other content using MIT’s Visualizing Cultures project is coming to a close. Though some teams’ classroom presentations have been better than others by being more interactive, overall I think the experiment has … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, Chad Raymond, Exercises & Projects, Feedback & Reflection, Group Collaboration
Tagged MIT, survey, Visualizing Cultures
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Observations and Evaluations Done Right Interesting set of posts in the above link (aimed at the high school teacher crowd, but relevant for college as well) on how to turn classroom observations from a fear-inducing evaluation to a welcome chance … Continue reading
Dealing with the Know-it-Alls (aka, the Hermione Monsters)
We all know this student. They are both the savior and bane of our classroom–the student we can count on to participate and break the dreaded silence from the sea of confused or uncertain faces….and the student who we can … Continue reading
