4th EucheMs chemistry congress

thursday, 30-Aug 2012
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chem. Listy 106, s587–s1425 (2012)
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Workshop for University teaching staff
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worKShoP for univerSity teAChinG StAff
i. MACieJowSKA 1 , P. yAteS 2
1 Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Chemistry, Krakow, Poland
2 The Higher Education Academy, STEM, York, United Kingdom
Feedback and evaluation workshop
In this interactive workshop we will explore the related
activities of the feedback that university teachers give to their
students and the evaluation by students of the teaching that they
receive. The United Kingdom’s National Student Survey will be
used as an example of how evaluation takes place on a national
scale, and to demonstrate that feedback continues to pose
challenges for teaching staff across the range of universities.
The ways in which effective feedback can be given will be
considered by asking participants to work on a simple example.
They will then be asked to discuss a written case study in which
expectations have not been adequately managed, and to comment
on a conversation between a group of students in which they
discuss the feedback they have received.
The need for university teachers to evaluate their
performance will then be considered. The ways in which this can
be done through self reflection and seeking information from
students, colleagues and external sources will be discussed,
including the advantages and disadvantages of each source of
information. The need to reflect on such evaluation will be
stressed, before deciding whether to act upon it and if so to what
extent.
Evaluation was a topic investigated by one of the European
Chemistry Thematic Network’s working group1 .
The workshop is open to all who are interested in improving
their teaching, and opportunity will be provided to compare
existing practice within the countries that will be represented.
references:
1. Working group report
TEACHER/TEACHING EVALUATION BY STUDENTS
http://ectn-assoc.cpe.fr/archives/lib/2006/N05/
200612_TeachTeachEvalByStudents.pdf
Keywords: chemical education; teaching; feedback;
evaluation;
4 th EucheMs chemistry congress
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