Phil Race

Here are the main slides which Sally and I used with you today in our workshops on Assessment and Feedback. Thanks to participants for engaging with many of our ideas, and thanks for the many encouraging Tweets.   AssessFeedbackManchester-w.pptx (466 downloads)
The slides include many we did not actually use, but we hope that  you will find them interesting.

Thanks for asking me to share ideas with you this afternoon. You were a great group to work with. I’ve had to trim the slides I showed, deleting links and some pictures, to get them on this site, but here they are:  MMU-2018-w.pptx (437 downloads)
There were however no Tweets! Score = UoM: 0, MMU: 0.  At the other place next week – the challenge is on!

I enjoyed my visit to QMUL with Sally this week, where we ran discussions to help the team there to promote the various Fellowships of the HEA yesterday, then today ran a workshop on assessment and feedback for Engineering. The main slides and workshop products are here, and also on Sally’s website.  QMU-AssessFeedback-22-Nov2018-w.pptx (310 downloads)

I very much enjoyed leading a great group of participants through some thinking about learning outcomes at my workshop at the SEDA Conference in Birmingham on November 16th.
Here, I’m posting the main slides I used, with a few added ‘bonus slides’ as well;  SEDA-2018-w.pptx (403 downloads)
In addition, you can here download what participants came up with on post-its at the session – a remarkable amount of thinking in just a 45-minute session – well done!  SEDA-Workshop-Products-w.docx (351 downloads)
I’m also posting Robert Nelson’s THE piece referred to in the slides:  Robert-Nelson-THE-learning-outcomes-piece.docx (846 downloads) , and Donna Hurford’s survey of the learning outcomes of PGCert programmes, also mentioned in the slides:  Donna-Hurfords-collection-of-LOs-w.docx (330 downloads) , and for good measure my own controversial THE piece about assessing coursework essays:  Phil-Race-THE-article-on-assessed-essays-Sept-18.docx (752 downloads)

Really enjoyed being with you this morning – what a great group. Here are the main slides I used:  Bournemouth-2018-w.pptx (361 downloads)
Thanks for all the Tweets.

I got here this time. It only took 10 hours on trains yesterday from Newcastle to Hexham (where I aborted my plan to travel via Carlisle as there were no longer any trains South – or North therefrom), so returned to Newcastle where there were also no trains North or South (all day, they said), but eventually joined one from Aberdeen 4 hours late, which went East, to Sunderland, Harlepool, then York, and apart from two cancelled trains to Manchester and Preston, eventually got there.
I was so glad I did, as you were a great group to work with, and I very much look forward to seeing you again in December. I’m now back in wet Newcastle after a very smooth and punctual journey – via Carlisle again. Here are the main slides I used, and also the word document of the HEA UKPSF stuff. Thanks too for all the Tweets.  UCLAN-2018-w-2.pptx (380 downloads)   ukpsf-details-on-one-sheet-w.docx (734 downloads)

I helped Sally to run an ANTF-organised writing residential workshop at Cumberland Lodge on 11th and 12th September. The slides we used are here:   Cumberland-Lodge-writing-2018-w.pptx (364 downloads)

I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to University College, Birmingham today. Not only do you have fantastic new buildings and learning spaces, but one of the most enthusiastic conference audiences I have had the pleasure of working with. Thanks for the lovely comments on Twitter on #philatucb18. I tried in my keynote not to bore you with too many text-only slides, but include more activities – and it seemed to work! The main slides are here: UCB-2018-ww.pptx (614 downloads)
It was very interesting too to experiment with how many different ways a fine large lecture theatre like yours can be used to engage audiences. Will be very happy to come back! Now home in Newcastle – the journey North is always half-an-hour slower than the timetable – gravity perhaps – something to do with travelling ‘up’ the country compared to ‘down’ I guess?

mara.fuertes-gutierrez and Juan Muñoz when working at Leeds Beckett University some time ago translated ‘In at the Deep End’ into Spanish, and have now made this available to all as a Word document or pdf file. These are attached here:  In-at-the-deep-end-Spanish-translation_Tirarse-a-la-piscina.docx (507 downloads)   In-at-the-deep-end-Spanish-translation_Tirarse-a-la-piscina.pdf (414 downloads) Many thanks to Mara and Juan for translating this.

I’m also posting again the Arabic translation, and the original Leeds Beckett publications here:  In-at-the-Deep-End.pdf (435 downloads) Arabic-translation-of-in-at-the-deep-end.pdf (485 downloads)

 

On Thursday night (after the AHE Conference in Manchester on the 28th June), Sally and I will be travelling across to Oulton Hall in Yorkshire with a contingent of 20 UK and US assessment experts for 36 hour invitational seminar where we will be unpicking the differences and similarities between American and British perspectives on assessment, with a view to future collaborations and publications. Lots of National Teaching Fellows will be taking part including Fabio D’Arico, Kay Sambell, Margaret Price, Peter Hartley, Naomi Winston, Tansy Jessop, Susan Orr, Mark Schofield, Sally Brown and me! Thanks so much to Keston Fulcher and Nick Curtis of James Maddison University for involving us in making the arrangements for this.

We will be tweeting from the event and invite colleagues to join us between 6.30 and 7.00 pm on Friday 29th on the hashtag #AngloUsAssessSummit in response to the following three questions:

1. ​​What differences have you noticed between the way Americans and British people talk about assessment?
2. Do you think there are key structural differences between the ways in which we work on assessment, or are our principles very similar?
3. Can you identify any literature, research or projects that would be particularly helpful; to either US or UK colleagues or both (and why do you say that?)

Do join in if you are free at that time.