What Strictly Come Dancing can teach us about assessment and feedback (not to mention The X Factor)
What Strictly Come Dancing can teach us about assessment and feedback (not to mention The X Factor)
Learning Enhancement & Academic Development Service
Date: Wednesday 07 March 2018
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
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Speaker: Dr Matthew Williamson
Website: www.glasgow.ac.uk/leads/events
The judging of dancing on Strictly Come Dancing and of singing in The X Factor are probably the ways in which the largest cross-section of the public get exposed to what we would call assessment and feedback in Higher Education. And the ways in which marks are awarded, decisions are made and feedback given to contestants can be a very good insight into how we assess and give feedback on student work at University. This workshop will use examples of assessment and feedback from these popular TV programmes as examples to start a conversation about how we assess, the kinds of feedback we give and what we might expect our students to do with it, and may help colleagues understand why students don’t always do what we would like them to with the feedback we give.
Tea and coffee will be available.