Evidence Based Practice Seminar Series 2010: Assessment and Feedback

Closing the feedback loop in WebPA - Peer Review of individual students in group projects

Wednesday 9th June 2010, Loughborough University

This seminar provides a background to the WebPA system (www.webpa.ac.uk), an open source online peer assessment tool for students that enables every team member to recognise individual contributions to group work.

Using research and open source community resources the functionality and deployment of WebPA is explored and features of the basic and more advanced WebPA systems demonstrated. Expanding on the tool and its use in feedback - pilot findings will be shared in the seminar as a foundation to the key discussion. The overall aim is to link feedback to resources that could aid individual student skill development (feed-forward).

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Aims and objectives

* Open and sustain discussion of individual feedback / feed-forward to students.
* Linkage with generic skills development / PDP / benchmarks etc.

Programme

12.30 LUNCH
1.30 Introductions
1.45 Demonstration of WebPA and the advanced WebPA design
2.15 Evidence based inputs on student perceptions and use of feedback
3.00 TEA
3.30 Data and interpretation relating to qualitative student feedback on peers working in project groups
4.00 Discussion of issues relating to providing feedback to students using WebPA
4.30 CLOSE
(Timings are approximate.)

Who should come?

The seminar is intended for educators who are interested in understanding how the feedback loop can be closed effectively for group work. In addition educators, learning and technology specialists with an interest in the use of the WebPA tool may also wish to attend.

There is no charge for this event; however it is necessary to book (as places are limited) online . Loughborough University reserves the right to charge individuals a £50 fee for non-attendance.