Glasgow’s assessment tool supports an annual review of staff practice

Updated Nov 08, 2026

The University of Glasgow’s Assessment & Feedback Practice Enhancement Tool (PET) is an annual staff survey about assessment practice. Its 21 April 2026 announcement described a submission window of 26 March–26 April 2026, comparison with 2025 and optional questions intended to support participation at different career stages. Glasgow announcement.

What the university reports

PET asks staff to reflect on their practice against the Learning Through Assessment framework. Glasgow links earlier participation with development of its resources hub, college workshops, incorporation of the framework into PGCAP teaching for around 120 staff annually, and AI and feedback-literacy subgroups. The PET overview now signposts its 2026 dashboard for university staff.

Glasgow’s student feedback process brings together course evaluations, Summary and Response Documents and student–staff committees. Staff reflection and student feedback provide different starting points for an assessment discussion: what colleagues describe doing, and how students describe experiencing it.

Bring both accounts to the same task

Our practical suggestion is to choose one assessment task before bringing the evidence together. Put the brief, criteria and feedback timetable beside staff reflections and the relevant student comments. Ask where the accounts meet: a lecturer’s account of explaining a rubric, for example, can be considered alongside students’ questions about using its descriptors.

Keep staff reflections and student comments in separate columns before agreeing the next step. Record whether the response concerns the task design, an explanation students receive or support that colleagues need. That gives a workshop or new resource a specific purpose.

The assessment and feedback pathway offers questions for this discussion. For an agreed change, name the responsible team, decide when students will see it and revisit the same task with them. A revised explanation can be checked by asking students to use it, rather than simply confirming that it has been uploaded.

The student comment analysis governance checklist can help record the evidence considered and the decision reached.