have your cake and rate it: modelling feedback and assessment
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Have your cake and rate it: modelling feedback and
assessment
Felix JanewayViCE/PHEC 2014
Lifelong Learning Centre
What is a Lifelong Learning Centre?
Mature and school leavers
Widening participation backgrounds
Mixture of academic and life skills
Mixture of academic, technological and practical abilities
Aims – Assessing and giving feedback
To assess! Increase the quality of future workTo reflect on their methods of learning Red-flag any other concerns
Task 1
What qualities would you want to see in this cake?
“Make a chocolate cake to
welcome our new students”
Task 2
Assign weightings to each of your criteria – which are
the most important?
“Make a chocolate cake to
welcome our new students”
Task 3
Give each cake a mark out of 100% and give feedback
“Make a chocolate cake to
welcome our new students”
The Cakes
7
Work Quality Spread
8
Work Quality Spread
9
Modelling Collusion
10
Modelling Plagiarism
11
What is a failure?
12
What is a failure?
13
Benefits
• Even the least confident student had input
• Students did not feel ‘tested’
• Element of ‘giving’ from the instructors
• Light-hearted and fun
Limits
• Not all students like cake
• Not all students can marry the analogies to the real world assessment
• Time cost
• 94% ‘Useful’ or ‘Very Useful’ Rating
“The cake [activity] was fun, didn’t take up too much time and had a clear point to it”
“I am a hands on learner and from the cake activity with Felix I remember what the aim was.”
Measurements of Success
Measurements of Success
• Springboard for comfortable discussion throughout year
• More honest discussions about feedback
• Student appreciation of workload
Have your cake and rate it: modelling feedback and
assessment
Felix JanewayViCE/PHEC 2014
Lifelong Learning Centre
Ellen AveryKaty DobsonLinda Forbes
Stephen MawSheryl MeskinEmma Pittard