- Introduction
- Assessment for learning
- What do students say about feedback?
- Why give feedback? Open loop learning
- What closing the loop can achieve
- Giving feedback to students
- Front-ending approaches
- How should feedback be given?
- Where next?
- Oral feedback
- Utilising learning technology
- Using an MLE to challenge students’ learning, encourage interaction with lecture materials and assess their knowledge
- Where next?
- Who should provide the feedback?
- Introducing peer support and assessment for learning approaches into individual projects
- Further examples
- Reflecting on current practice
- Strategies for enhancement
- References and resources
Enhancing Feedback for Engineering Students
Overview
This guide aims to provide a starting point for those tutoring and assessing engineering students. It offers a brief introduction to the topic, including definitions of much of the terminology associated with assessment and feedback processes. It aims, through links to literature and examples from engineering, to support engineering academics in providing more effective feedback to their students and will hopefully act as a catalyst for reflection on current practice and future developments.
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Enhancing Feedback for Engineering Students an Engineering Subject Centre guide by Alan Webb and Liz Willis (PDF 2.5 MB)Author biographies
Dr Alan Webb is Associate Head of the School of Engineering at the University of Ulster.With over twenty years of teaching experience,Alan has developed a keen interest in the feedback process. Alan is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and also a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a past Northern Ireland Network chair of IET (2006/7).
Liz Willis coordinates the Engineering Subject Centre’s events and professional development workshop calendar, including a programme of support for new lecturers. She works with other members of the Centre team on engineering education research activities and is an evaluator for the Teaching Award Scheme. Liz is the author of Enhancing the First Year Experience for Engineering Students (2008).
Copyright © 2010 Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre, Loughborough University.
ISBN 978-1-907632-12-9 (print) ISBN 978-1-907632-13-6 (online)
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Enhancing Feedback for Engineering Students was written by Alan Webb and Liz Willis for the Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre, Loughborough University. Copyright © 2010.
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