1. FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AND NEWCASTLE
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS UNION
HaSSessment and Feedback Event
2pm – 4.30pm Wednesday 5 December 2012 in the upstairs Exhibition Space in
the Great North Museum
Purpose: The event is designed to allow staff and students from academic units in
HaSS to explore issues relating to assessment and feedback. It will draw on the
preliminary findings of the research carried out by Stacey Astill, the student intern
who is researching student perspectives on assessment and feedback, as well as
Students’ Union’s experience from its current joint feedback campaign with QuiLT.
The session is designed to maximise the opportunities for discussion. We will try and
capture the key issues in a brief report to be compiled after the event.
Who is it for?
We’d like to invite each DELT (or representative) to come with two academic
colleagues and three students, who could be school reps or SSC members, but do
not have to be. Students may be UG or PGT. George Watkins (NUSU
Representation and Democracy Co-ordinator) is raising students’ awareness of this
event, but DELTs have responsibility for who attends from their Academic Unit.
Please let us know by 9am Monday 3rd December (for catering and name badges)
who will be coming. E-mail Simon.Pallett@ncl.ac.uk with your list of names.
Rough outline
Coffee and tea on arrival
2.00 Introduction and welcome (Simon Pallett)
2.10 Rachel Thornton, NUSU, Education Officer, Feedback Campaign
2.15 Stacey Astill – initial findings of the research
2.30 Group discussion – students and staff in separate groups
3.10 Tea and coffee break
3.25 Group exercise - academic units (staff and students) discuss what’s positive,
negative and interesting about assessment in the unit
3.40 Group exercise – in same groups - solving one of the problems identified
before plus one from another unit.
4.00 Final plenary – Agree on actions to take forward at school, faculty and
institutional level
4.30 Close