Feedback in Higher Education

Feedback & Evaluation: What is higher education?

Education in latin means to extract.

Higher education is how to learn from what I've already been taught. 

I'm the centre of my own education

Higher education is:

• Preparing for mature life.
• Learning through education. 
• To synthesize different information to learn.
• 3 years of unconscience learning and evolution of attitude.

Work is:

• Training.
• Learning.
• Repeating.
• Training.
• Learning.
• Repeating.

Formative feedback is:

• Graded and assessed work. (At the end of the module.)
• One-to-one tutorials. (Written + Verbal) (Or is it summative?)
• Allows the tutors to adopt to meet needs of the students. 
• Helps to monitor progress.

Progress tutorial:

Looking at areas for personal development and achievement, action and time planning. Any Issues.

There's many different types of critques. I should try and find one that works for me, find what works:

• Concept crits.
• Progress crits.
• Group crits.
• Final crits.

"Good teaching makes you ask questions, bad teaching gives you answers" 

Weaknesses with feedback provided for students:

• Students don't understand.
• Disinterested. [To give or receive, group work]
• Failure, Don't know why.
• Personal attack.
• Group allow for hiding. 
• One to one, overwhelming.

After this we had a group workshop to come up with questions we would want feedback on:

• Time management
• My practice.
• My blog posts.
• My engagement
• Speaking, communication.
• Contextual writing.
• My feedback.
• Amount of work I produce.
• Quality of work.

Then as a group we collated these questions onto a big sheet, where we refined our questions down:

• Am I upto date?
• Quality of work? - Everything explained?
• Labelled/
• Revelant work?
• Is it all referenced?
• Progress as a designer.
• Where I've one wrong and right.
• Clarity and Organisation. 
• References, advice.
• Formative feedback.