Learning from your assessment feedback
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Description: | Highlighting the importance of assessment feedback, this resource offers advice on how students may make the most out of any comments received. Guidance includes reading feedback as soon as it is received, keeping a learning journal and forming action plans. |
Estimated activity time: | 30 minutes |
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LEARNING FROM YOUR ASSESSMENT FEEDBACK
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Your tutors take a lot of time to give you feedback on your work- why not make use of it to guide how you will tackle your next assignment? You may even improve your grades while improving your understanding of each assessed topic. Use the following steps to help you make the most out of your assignment feedback and don’t let any possible disappointment cloud how you approach your next assignment. Instead, let constructive self-criticism lead to an ‘action-plan’ for future assignments.
1. Read your feedback as soon as you receive it.
Reading and making use of your feedback is an important part of the assessment cycle.- You can use positive and negative comments to improve your work but don’t take any negative comments as a sign of personal failure. Use them to improve your work next time.
- If you are clear about any part of your feedback, talk to your tutor. Find out why you got the feedback and grade that you did and plan ways to improve. For instance, did you meet all of the assessment criteria?
2. Keep a learning journal.
For each assessment, sort your feedback into useful categories and keep a note of all the feedback your receive. You can use the template below to help or you can design your own template.- Look for patterns in the feedback: are you good at certain tasks and not at others?
- Look for the common areas to improve and find help for those particular areas. Make sure you work on these for the next assessment.
- Ask your tutor for feedback on these particular areas in drafts of your assessment.
3. Action plan: Prepare your work.
Does your feedback relate to problems with:- The way the answer addresses the question?
- Relevance and application of reading?
- Range of reading material?
- Missing/inaccurate in-text citations and references?
4. Action plan: Plan your work.
Does your feedback relate to problems with your:- Interpretation of the question
- Integration of reading/research
- Uneven and unfocused direction and structure of the main argument.
5. Action plan: Producing your assessment.
Does your feedback relate to problems with:- Structure and organisation
- Language
- Difficulty in following the argument
- Embedding evidence.