Feedback for Improving Learning

Facilitator

Dr Thushari Welikala

Target Audience

This workshop is mainly aimed at staff involved in teaching, learning and assessment in higher education.

Other members of staff interested in understanding the role of feedback in higher education and how assessment and feedback inform learning and teaching are also welcome.

Session Overview

This session focuses on:

• the purposes and the main principles of feedback
• different types and methods of effective feedback
• the practical challenges and opportunities of different methods of
• providing feedback strategies of overcoming such challenges to improve students’ learning experience in higher education

Session Intended Learning Outcomes

This session will enable participants to:

• demonstrate an understanding of the different roles and purposes of providing feedback in higher education
• critically explore their own beliefs, practices and values in relation to the theoretical underpinnings of feedback
• re-conceptualize feedback as dialogic processes that lead to improving students’ learning and tutors’ teaching practice
  

Methods of Facilitation

The session will be facilitated using a collaborative, conversational approach to learning. It will invite participants to critically reflect and challenge their own views and practices in relation to feedback by engaging in professional learning conversations, into which theoretical principles will be injected.