Phil Race

Here are the main slides I used in my impromptu session at the Transitions conference:  Learning-transitions-Dundee-w.pptx (629 downloads) (Sally volunteered me). Lovely group of participants, thanks.

Thoroughly enjoyed Day 1 of the Conference – thanks to all whose sessions I attended. Here are the main slides from my concluding keynote:  reinventing-assessment-15-2017-Solstice-w.pptx (665 downloads) . A transcript of most of your wonderful responses to the post-it task is now here: Solstice-Post-its.docx (606 downloads) . Here are two more post-its which escaped the main batch when I transcribed them, but are very relevant… Assessment needs reinventing now because: (1) it doesn’t assess people’s competence of ability from an employability perspective and (2) We are always complaining about assessment overload, but still setting the same assessments (and children are taught differently than we were). Thanks for being a great audience.

I am delighted to announce that I have been given the title of Visiting Professor within the Centre for Learning and Teaching, at Edge Hill University – and so indeed has Sally!
I am also delighted that we are visiting Edge Hill next week for the Solstice Conference, and look forward to working closely with the University.

Here are the main slides (minus the pictures, video clips etc which would have made the file too large) from our afternoon workshop today. Durham-2017-ww.pptx (616 downloads)  . The accompanying ‘content’ can be downloaded from the link in the post below.

On a cool, damp Bank holiday I set myself the task of extracting things from the respective chapters on lecturing in the 3rd edition of ‘Making Learning Happen’ and the 4th edition of ‘The Lecturer’s Toolkit’, to make the main ideas more accessible to anyone who might benefit from them. The resulting download is here:  Phil-on-lectures.docx (8577 downloads)

Here are the main slides we used at today’s workshop. Thanks for being such a great group, and allowing me to boss you around and keep you to time!  We covered a great deal I think, and I hope your afternoon planning meeting went really well.  Thanks for all the Tweets too. Also, special thanks to Helen who organised it all, and to Nicole who booked my travel and accommodation so effectively. It was a pleasure to visit (very wet) Worcester – I think the rain is on its way North now!
Do raid my website for anything else which helps you make assessment and feedback work well for students and for yourselves. Towards-assessment-as-learning-Worcester-2017-W-.pptx (621 downloads)

Thanks for participating in this workshop. Here are the main  slides. Do also download the materials from my webside mentioned in the slides.   reinventing-assessment-15-2017-rgu-w.pptx (593 downloads)

Great being in Aberdeen on a gloriously sunny day for this conference. Here are the main slides I used in my keynote.  Thanks for being such a warm audience. Looking forward now to joining in to the rest of the conference.  Towards-assessment-as-learning-RGU-2017-W.pptx (616 downloads)

Here also are all the replies to ‘Making assessment and feedback work more effectively and efficiently for myself and my students would be much better if only I…’  LTC-17-Keynote-Exercise-Phil-Race.docx (584 downloads)

Great to be at this conference in Bristol. Here are the slides I used in my morning keynote, and the bits I didn’t use, including Question 6 and the conclusions. You were a fabulous audience, thanks for joining in so heartily. How-students-really-learn-CABS-Bristol-2017-w.pptx (727 downloads)

On Monday 27th March, Sally and I are flying to Venice then on to Padua where we are delighted to be presenting alongside Kay Sambell, Fabio D’Arico and David Nicol at a conference on assessment at the ancient University of Padua. We will be seeing some Giottos while  we are there as well as visiting the oldest university botanical garden in the world. We also saw Galileo’s desk (pictured)
Then later in the week we are going to Venice for a three day break with no work at all! Our slides for our workshop and presentation at Padua are here:  Padua-1st-sessionn-2017-2.pptx (551 downloads)   Padua-Assess4Engagement-pr2.pptx (570 downloads)