Practice Enhancement Tool
About the PET
The Practice Enhancement Tool is an annual survey to support our teaching staff. It will allow staff to feed back their experiences of embedding the Learning through Assessment (LTA) in their teaching.
The Assessment & Feedback Practice Enhancement Tool is being launched on the 11th March and will remain open until the 11th April. Taking only 10-20 minutes to complete, it will enable you to identify areas of strength and appropriate opportunities for continuous professional development.
How can I use my results?
After the closure of the questionnaire on the 11th April, you will be emailed your results of the PET. Following this, you will receive a link to your School’s Assessment and Feedback dashboard. This will allow you to see your School's responses in the context of the College and wider University's aggregated responses. This will also help you track your schools progress against the Learning Through Assessment framework over time, on competition of annual PET.
Can my manager/colleagues see my results?
While the questionnaire is not anonymous (it is necessary to identify you in order to create the Practice Dashboards), line managers and senior management will not have access to identifiable individual responses. However, if you wish to use the questionnaire as a basis for discussion with colleagues (e.g. your line manager during your annual Performance & Development Review), you can select the option to download a PDF file of your responses for your records and share it with them directly. This would be the only route by which colleagues could view your personal responses.
When is the closing date?
The PET will be open for all academic colleagues from the 11th March to the 11th April 2024. This will support the gathering of the broadest and most representative coverage of the University possible and provide you with better information to compare your practice against. From this point, the PET will reopen yearly to allow for a review of the self-analysis.
What is the A&F Resources Hub?
The A&F Resources Hub is designed as an ever-evolving resource to support staff and students across the University with your understanding of assessment and feedback practice. You will find resources and guides to support the creation and design of Meaningful, Iterative, Programmatic, and Inclusive assessment and feedback. It is accessible via Learning & Teaching
How will responses to PET survey be used long term and how does this relate to the learning through assessment framework?
The PET results will showcase if a College or School is approaching assessment and feedback, as they are outlined by the Learning Through Assessment Framework. The results will support leadership teams at College and School level to analyse their assessment practice and implement changes, or provide support where needed, to improve learning.
I am not confident to answer the PET as I do different things on different courses. How can I represent all of this?
For academics teaching more than one role/ course/ programme, we’d like you to answer how you prefer, based on whichever course you want to reflect on. The survey will run annually, so for this year, you might want to reflect on a course you and your team are enhancing in line with the Learning Through Assessment Framework. Your overall survey feedback can then be used to discuss potential changes with your course team and enhance the School’s offerings in line with LTA.
I want to answer some of the questions and skip others, but the survey didn’t let me.
Every answer must be completed to submit the Practice Enhancement Tool. If there are questions you are unsure about, you can ask your line manager or one of our team members at afpp-workstream@glasgow.ac.uk. Incomplete survey data will not be used, and therefore you will not receive your results or be included in the College / School data dashboards.
How can I use my results?
On completion of the questionnaire, you will be emailed a link to your School’s Assessment and Feedback dashboard. This will allow you to see your School's responses in the context of the College and wider University's aggregated responses. This will also help you track your School’s progress against the Learning Through Assessment framework over time.