Feedback on assignments

1. Feedback on assignments
An important stage in your learning.
Feedback provides you will information
about your progress, your successes (or if
you need to do more) and how to use this
feedback to enhance your future learning.

2. Feedback from you
On the assignment front sheet we ask questions about
your experiences
Here are some typical questions we ask:
• Things I think I have done well in this
assignment:
• Things I have struggled with in this
assignment:
• Skills I would like to acquire/develop to
improve my assignments:
• Was the assignment brief clear? If not,
why not?
Your views about the
assignment experience. It
helps us to understand how
effective the guidance was
and to understand if there
were things you struggled
with (apart from having to do
an assignment at all – of
course!)
We can use this to add some
additional pointers to our
feedback which can help you
take your skills forward
We will use this feedback in
order to improve the clarity of
assignment briefs

3. Feedback from your tutor
Some overall
comments
What you did well –
some things we
thought were
particularly good
Guidance to help you move
forward – areas for
improvement. For example,
there may be some issues you
didn’t address adequately in
the report you submitted,
there may be grammar and
spelling issues, you may not
have referenced accurately
This example is an anonymised
extract from some real feedback to a
learner

4. Feedback from your tutor – overall comments &
‘what you did well’ example in more detail

5. Feedback from your tutor – ‘what you should
improve’ example in more detail

6. Here we will
indicate whether
you have achieved
all the required
criteria for the
assignment.
And you will be
very clear yourself
if you ‘miss’ one –
where and why
because your tutor
will give you a
‘tick’ or a ‘cross’
General assessment criteria):
Pass Refer
Addressed all the assignment tasks and
has therefore achieved all the learning
outcomes.
Not addressed all the assignment tasks.
Communicated meaning reasonably
clearly and in the required format.
The work is unclear and unreadable, and
has not been presented in the required
format.
Used mainly accurate grammar, spelling
and punctuation.
The work contains a high percentage of
spelling, punctuation and grammatical
errors.
Produced work which mostly
demonstrates logical organisation and
coherence.
The work is not logically organised and
lacks coherence.
Referred to a range of appropriate
sources in the text and used them to
effectively support discussion; made an
attempt to provide in-text citations and to
list sources using the Harvard method.
No evidence of wider reading. Where
appropriate sources have been referred
to, they have not been used to effectively
support discussion. No attempt has been
made to provide in-text citations or to list
sources using the Harvard method.
Demonstrated a reasonably sound
factual and/or conceptual knowledge
base and used appropriate terminology.
Presence of factual or conceptual
inaccuracies or misinterpretations.
Incorrect terminology.
Demonstrated a fair understanding of key
theories and/or best practice, which are
appropriately applied within the
assignment task.
Poor or inadequate understanding of key
theories and/or best practice.
Made an attempt to use recognised
techniques of analysis (e.g.
compare/contrast; evaluation;
differentiation; interpretation) from which
appropriate critical insights are drawn.
Poor or inadequate attempt to use
recognised techniques of analysis.
Constructed sound conclusions which
are clearly derived from evidence and/or
theory and/or best practice and/or
literature.
Conclusions or statements are not clearly
derived from evidence and/or theory
and/or best practice. Conclusions do not
follow logically from previous statements
or propositions.
Example: General
Assessment
Criteria for Level 5
Diploma in
Housing

7. This isn’t the only form of feedback
• Tutors will also
annotate your
script
• Here is an extract
with tutor notes
for you to read
when your
assignment is
returned to you