Phil Race

Well done, enthusiastic group of UWE colleagues for taking part in quite a strenuous day, and making excellent progress towards putting together applications for HEA Fellowships across all the levels. I wish you well in rounding off your applications, and look forward to hearing that they’ve been successful. Don’t leave it for long now, or you’ll lose bits of the thinking you did today.

Sally and I very much enjoyed this year’s ANTF Symposium in the MacDonald Burlington Hotel in Birmingham. Sponsors of the event were Ede and Ravenscroft (who took photos of many of us) and Play-doh (who provided material to help us concentrate during the sessions). It was great to meet up with ANTFs from all over, and in particular with our friends Simon Thomson and Ruth Pickford from Leeds Beckett University, pictured with us here.

Great working with you today. Here are the main slides and resources I mentioned. Thanks for joining in so well. East Kent slides (568 downloads)    Booklet about tutorials (548 downloads)    small groups handout from Toolkit (910 downloads)

Great to be back at Derby after several years. Thanks to so many of you turning up to be with me. Here are the main slides I used (do let me know if I missed anything useful out), minus as always the video clips and pictures. New link now at Derby-Assessment-and-Feedback-2015-w.pptx (263 downloads)   As I’m sure you could tell, I’d have loved a whole day at Derby, but hope that I touched on sufficient useful ideas to keep you going. I believe I have now conquered Windows 8 on my new laptop, but not yet microphones and walking about. (As ever, whenever a computer does something really silly, it can be tracked straight back to its user!).

Here are the main slides I used in our day together Newcastle College Masterclass (587 downloads) . You were a great group to work with, and it was very clear you are really keen that your students succeed. The file was so big I could not get all the slides in the one presentation, so I’m adding those on the literacies here  literaciespr3.pptx (331 downloads)

The National Union of Students has now produced three such tools, on ‘Assessment and Feedback’, ‘Organisation and Management’ and ‘Learning Resources’, all strongly related to aspects of the student experience as gathered annually in the UK in the National Student Survey. These tools provide excellent food for thought and discussion in universities, and can be downloaded from the NUS website, or indeed direct from here: Assessment and feedback (791 downloads) , Organisation and management (723 downloads) , Learning resources (753 downloads) .

Here are the main slides I used today. Thanks for all the Tweets. You were a great group and I hope to see you again before long. Sadly, trains from the South West are awry, and my Edinburgh train is turning round at Birmingham, but I still hope to get home tonight!   Enhancement at Bridgwater (605 downloads)

Here are the main slides I dipped in and out of today, not in the same order we used of course. Swansea slides (663 downloads) . You were a lovely group to work with, and thanks for all the Tweets too. PS: oops, I forgot to include these slides something further (578 downloads) .

I’ve today put together a ‘Digest’ of some quite long extracts from ‘Making Learning Happen’ (3rd edition published May 2014) and the 4th edition of ‘The Lecturer’s Toolkit’ (published this year), from the respective chapters on Assessment. These are the bits focussing on traditional assessment formats such as exams and essays, and I’ve put enough (I hope) of the preceding discussion from each chapter to set the scene. You’ll also be able to see the different styles of the two books, and sometimes compare two different ways of approaching the same topics. (These extracts are of course from my disc versions of the submitted manuscripts, and the published editions have the benefit of copy-editors’ expertise from the respective publishers). If you find this useful, please re-tweet using the button below. Also, any feedback really appreciated – thanks in advance for this. Assessment-digest-w-1-1.docx (5139 downloads)

Sally and I are delighted to be working in Utrecht again, and are being well looked after on our visit. Here are the main slides I used in my two workshops on feedback, where I have updated the slides to include the differences between the two workshops, where I altered the order to ‘lead the witnesses’ on the 26th, and to ‘start from your experience’ on the 27th.   Utrecht2 (620 downloads)
There were not enough of you to have a workshop on small-group teaching, but thanks to a few of you for participating in a discussion and a related exercise. The main slides relating to that are here: small groups slides (614 downloads) , updated now with the three introductory slides I used. I’ve also added the booklet on ‘personal tutoring’ which I wrote with colleagues from Leeds Met some time ago. personal tutoring (739 downloads) .

Great working with you, and thanks for looking after us so well.