Professor David Nicol
- Research Professor: Teaching Excellence Initiative (Management)
Publications
2024
McCallum, Suzanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496 and Nicol, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2024)
Sharing Agency for Feedback: Students Write Their Own Feedback Comments before Receiving Lecturer Comments.
17th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 9th April 2024.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Kushwah, Lovleen
(2024)
Shifting feedback agency to students by having them write their own feedback comments.
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 49(3),
pp. 419-439.
(doi: 10.1080/02602938.2023.2265080)
2023
McGuire, Willie, Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Haywood, Gemma
(2023)
Student Perceptions of Self-Generated Feedback: “It Made the Course Make Sense”.
ECER 2023, Glasgow, UK, 12-14 Sep 2023.
McCallum, Suzanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496 and Nicol, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2023)
Using Active Feedback to Develop Students’ Critical Thinking Skills.
AHE Conference 2023, Manchester, UK, 22-23 June 2023.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496
(2023)
Using Active Feedback to Develop Students’ Critical Thinking.
inspirED Europe 2023, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8 June 2023.
Nicol, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and McCallum, S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496
(2023)
Using Active Feedback to Develop Students’ Critical Thinking.
Workshop for Academic & Educational Development Staff, Durham University, Durham, UK, 17 May 2023.
McCallum, Suzanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496 and Nicol, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2023)
Using Active Feedback to Develop Students’ Critical Thinking Skills.
EAA Education Committee Workshop, 17 March 2023.
McGuire, Willie, Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Haywood, Gemma
(2023)
Student Perceptions of Self-Generated, Inner Feedback.
BERA Conference 2023, Birmingham, UK, 12-14 Sep 2023.
McGuire, Willie, Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Haywood, Gemma
(2023)
Student Perceptions of Self-generated Feedback.
Assessment in Higher Education Conference 2023, Manchester, UK, 22-23 Jun 2023.
(Accepted for Publication)
Swingler, Maxine, Morrow, Lorna and Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2023)
Generating Internal Feedback from Peer and Self Review.
ESPLAT 2023, Umea, Sweden, 14-16 June 2023.
p. 25.
2022
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496, Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602 and Gibb, Alison
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9209-7625
(2022)
Turning Active Learning into Active Feedback.
Workshop with the Principal Fellows HEA Network, Glasgow Caledonian University, 23 November 2022.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496, Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602 and Gibb, Alison
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9209-7625
(2022)
Activating Internal Feedback: Developing Students' Capacity for Self-Regulation Activating Inner Feedback: Building Students' Capacity.
Third Virtual Conference on Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Higher Education, The Center for Research and Improvement in Education (CIME) of the Universidad del Desarrollo, 16 November 2022.
Nicol, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and McCallum, S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496
(2022)
What If Students Generate Their Own Feedback? Turning Active Learning into Active Feedback.
Workshop for Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 25 Aug 2022.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Kushwah, Lovleen
(2022)
Enhancing Learner Autonomy and Supervisor Feedback Input: Making Students’ Inner Feedback Explicit During Research Thesis Writing.
TeachECONference2022, 27-29 Jun 2022.
McGuire, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1323-9702 and Nicol, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2022)
Active Feedback.
Assessment in Higher Education Conference, Manchester, UK, 22-24 June 2022.
McGuire, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1323-9702, Nicol, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Haywood, Gemma
(2022)
Improving Student Agency via Internally Generated Feedback.
Assessment Matters, University of Glasgow, 20th June 2022.
McGuire, William, Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Haywood, Gemma
(2022)
Active Feedback.
INRAP, 13 June 2022.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496, Kushwah, Lovleen and Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602
(2022)
Beyond the Technology: Rethinking assessment and feedback - unlocking the power of comparison based feedback.
[Audio]
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496, Kushwah, Lovleen, Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602 and Knight, Sarah
(2022)
Beyond the Technology: Rethinking assessment and feedback - unlocking the power of comparison based feedback. Beyond the Technology: The Education 4.0 Podcast.
[Audio]
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2022)
"Turning Active Learning into Active Feedback", Introductory Guide from Active Feedback Toolkit.
Documentation.
Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow.
(doi: 10.25416/NTR.19929290).
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496
(2022)
What if students generate their own feedback? Turning active learning into active feedback.
BAFA Accounting Education Special Interest Group Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 18-20 May 2022.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Selveretnam, Geethanjali
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7609-8388
(2022)
Making internal feedback explicit: harnessing the comparisons students make during two-stage exams.
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 47(4),
pp. 507-522.
(doi: 10.1080/02602938.2021.1934653)
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496
(2022)
Making internal feedback explicit: exploiting the multiple comparisons that occur during peer review.
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 47(3),
pp. 424-443.
(doi: 10.1080/02602938.2021.1924620)
McGuire, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1323-9702, Nicol, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Haywood, Gemma
(2022)
Active Feedback.
15th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, 29 Mar 2022.
Quinn, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602 and Nicol, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2022)
Using Active Feedback to Develop Entrepreneurial Mindset.
SA-UK University Staff Doctoral Programme (Pascal International Observatory and the British Council, Universities of Johannesburg, Glasgow and Zululand) Workshop, University of Glasgow, 25th March 2022.
Swingler, Maxine, Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Morrow, Lorna
(2022)
Generating internal feedback from self and peer review – A summary.
TILE Network Seminar, University of Glasgow (online), 26 January 2022.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602 and McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496
(2022)
Inner Feedback Comparison.
Principal Fellows HEA (Scotland) Network, 20th Jan 2022.
2021
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496
(2021)
The Power of Inner Feedback: Turning Theory into Practice.
Glasgow Caledonian University Senior HEA Fellows Group, 9 December 2021.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602 and McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496
(2021)
Inner Feedback Comparison.
Napier University Business School MBA Teaching Group, 24th Nov 2021.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496 and Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602
(2021)
Improving Learning by Building on Pupils’ Natural Capacity to Generate Inner Feedback.
4th SLO Formative Evaluation Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 18th November 2021.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2021)
The power of internal feedback: exploiting natural comparison processes.
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 46(5),
pp. 756-778.
(doi: 10.1080/02602938.2020.1823314)
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, Mullen, Helen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5031-0865 and Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602
(2021)
Using Comparison-based Feedback to Develop Students’ Entrepreneurial Mindset.
Chartered Association of Business Schools Learning, Teaching and Student Experience (LTSE) 2021, 29-30 Jun 2021.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602, Kushwah, Lovleen and Mullen, Helen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5031-0865
(2021)
Helping Learners Activate Productive Inner Feedback: Using Resource and Dialogic Comparisons.
In: Learning, Teaching and Student Experience 2021 (Chartered Association of Business Schools) Conference Proceedings, Online, 29-30 June 2021,
pp. 44-48.
(doi: 10.25416/edgehill.19535881.v1)
2019
Swingler, Maxine, Morrow, Lorna and Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2019)
Generating Feedback from Self and Peer Review: Developing Evaluative Judgement.
12th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 2-3 Apr 2019.
2018
Swingler, Maxine, Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Morrow, Lorna
(2018)
“It allowed me to question my own writing”: Generating Feedback from Self and Peer Review.
BPS DART-P Conference, Birmingham, UK, 06-07 Jun 2018.
Articles
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Kushwah, Lovleen
(2024)
Shifting feedback agency to students by having them write their own feedback comments.
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 49(3),
pp. 419-439.
(doi: 10.1080/02602938.2023.2265080)
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Selveretnam, Geethanjali
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7609-8388
(2022)
Making internal feedback explicit: harnessing the comparisons students make during two-stage exams.
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 47(4),
pp. 507-522.
(doi: 10.1080/02602938.2021.1934653)
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496
(2022)
Making internal feedback explicit: exploiting the multiple comparisons that occur during peer review.
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 47(3),
pp. 424-443.
(doi: 10.1080/02602938.2021.1924620)
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2021)
The power of internal feedback: exploiting natural comparison processes.
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 46(5),
pp. 756-778.
(doi: 10.1080/02602938.2020.1823314)
Research Reports or Papers
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2022)
"Turning Active Learning into Active Feedback", Introductory Guide from Active Feedback Toolkit.
Documentation.
Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow.
(doi: 10.25416/NTR.19929290).
Conference or Workshop Item
McCallum, Suzanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496 and Nicol, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2024)
Sharing Agency for Feedback: Students Write Their Own Feedback Comments before Receiving Lecturer Comments.
17th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 9th April 2024.
McGuire, Willie, Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Haywood, Gemma
(2023)
Student Perceptions of Self-Generated Feedback: “It Made the Course Make Sense”.
ECER 2023, Glasgow, UK, 12-14 Sep 2023.
McCallum, Suzanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496 and Nicol, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2023)
Using Active Feedback to Develop Students’ Critical Thinking Skills.
AHE Conference 2023, Manchester, UK, 22-23 June 2023.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496
(2023)
Using Active Feedback to Develop Students’ Critical Thinking.
inspirED Europe 2023, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8 June 2023.
Nicol, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and McCallum, S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496
(2023)
Using Active Feedback to Develop Students’ Critical Thinking.
Workshop for Academic & Educational Development Staff, Durham University, Durham, UK, 17 May 2023.
McCallum, Suzanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496 and Nicol, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2023)
Using Active Feedback to Develop Students’ Critical Thinking Skills.
EAA Education Committee Workshop, 17 March 2023.
McGuire, Willie, Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Haywood, Gemma
(2023)
Student Perceptions of Self-Generated, Inner Feedback.
BERA Conference 2023, Birmingham, UK, 12-14 Sep 2023.
McGuire, Willie, Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Haywood, Gemma
(2023)
Student Perceptions of Self-generated Feedback.
Assessment in Higher Education Conference 2023, Manchester, UK, 22-23 Jun 2023.
(Accepted for Publication)
Swingler, Maxine, Morrow, Lorna and Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2023)
Generating Internal Feedback from Peer and Self Review.
ESPLAT 2023, Umea, Sweden, 14-16 June 2023.
p. 25.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496, Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602 and Gibb, Alison
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9209-7625
(2022)
Turning Active Learning into Active Feedback.
Workshop with the Principal Fellows HEA Network, Glasgow Caledonian University, 23 November 2022.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496, Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602 and Gibb, Alison
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9209-7625
(2022)
Activating Internal Feedback: Developing Students' Capacity for Self-Regulation Activating Inner Feedback: Building Students' Capacity.
Third Virtual Conference on Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Higher Education, The Center for Research and Improvement in Education (CIME) of the Universidad del Desarrollo, 16 November 2022.
Nicol, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and McCallum, S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496
(2022)
What If Students Generate Their Own Feedback? Turning Active Learning into Active Feedback.
Workshop for Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 25 Aug 2022.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Kushwah, Lovleen
(2022)
Enhancing Learner Autonomy and Supervisor Feedback Input: Making Students’ Inner Feedback Explicit During Research Thesis Writing.
TeachECONference2022, 27-29 Jun 2022.
McGuire, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1323-9702 and Nicol, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2022)
Active Feedback.
Assessment in Higher Education Conference, Manchester, UK, 22-24 June 2022.
McGuire, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1323-9702, Nicol, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Haywood, Gemma
(2022)
Improving Student Agency via Internally Generated Feedback.
Assessment Matters, University of Glasgow, 20th June 2022.
McGuire, William, Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Haywood, Gemma
(2022)
Active Feedback.
INRAP, 13 June 2022.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496
(2022)
What if students generate their own feedback? Turning active learning into active feedback.
BAFA Accounting Education Special Interest Group Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 18-20 May 2022.
McGuire, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1323-9702, Nicol, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Haywood, Gemma
(2022)
Active Feedback.
15th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, 29 Mar 2022.
Quinn, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602 and Nicol, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2022)
Using Active Feedback to Develop Entrepreneurial Mindset.
SA-UK University Staff Doctoral Programme (Pascal International Observatory and the British Council, Universities of Johannesburg, Glasgow and Zululand) Workshop, University of Glasgow, 25th March 2022.
Swingler, Maxine, Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Morrow, Lorna
(2022)
Generating internal feedback from self and peer review – A summary.
TILE Network Seminar, University of Glasgow (online), 26 January 2022.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602 and McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496
(2022)
Inner Feedback Comparison.
Principal Fellows HEA (Scotland) Network, 20th Jan 2022.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496
(2021)
The Power of Inner Feedback: Turning Theory into Practice.
Glasgow Caledonian University Senior HEA Fellows Group, 9 December 2021.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602 and McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496
(2021)
Inner Feedback Comparison.
Napier University Business School MBA Teaching Group, 24th Nov 2021.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496 and Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602
(2021)
Improving Learning by Building on Pupils’ Natural Capacity to Generate Inner Feedback.
4th SLO Formative Evaluation Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 18th November 2021.
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, Mullen, Helen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5031-0865 and Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602
(2021)
Using Comparison-based Feedback to Develop Students’ Entrepreneurial Mindset.
Chartered Association of Business Schools Learning, Teaching and Student Experience (LTSE) 2021, 29-30 Jun 2021.
Swingler, Maxine, Morrow, Lorna and Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028
(2019)
Generating Feedback from Self and Peer Review: Developing Evaluative Judgement.
12th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 2-3 Apr 2019.
Swingler, Maxine, Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028 and Morrow, Lorna
(2018)
“It allowed me to question my own writing”: Generating Feedback from Self and Peer Review.
BPS DART-P Conference, Birmingham, UK, 06-07 Jun 2018.
Conference Proceedings
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602, Kushwah, Lovleen and Mullen, Helen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5031-0865
(2021)
Helping Learners Activate Productive Inner Feedback: Using Resource and Dialogic Comparisons.
In: Learning, Teaching and Student Experience 2021 (Chartered Association of Business Schools) Conference Proceedings, Online, 29-30 June 2021,
pp. 44-48.
(doi: 10.25416/edgehill.19535881.v1)
Audio
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496, Kushwah, Lovleen and Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602
(2022)
Beyond the Technology: Rethinking assessment and feedback - unlocking the power of comparison based feedback.
[Audio]
Nicol, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-8028, McCallum, Suzanne
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-2496, Kushwah, Lovleen, Quinn, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602 and Knight, Sarah
(2022)
Beyond the Technology: Rethinking assessment and feedback - unlocking the power of comparison based feedback. Beyond the Technology: The Education 4.0 Podcast.
[Audio]