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A reading pathway

Assessment and feedback

What makes assessment instructions and feedback useful to students?

Comments about assessment often describe several different experiences: understanding the task, interpreting the standard, receiving feedback and using it in later work. Start by separating those questions. A request for faster feedback calls for a different discussion from a request for a clearer explanation.

A useful starting point

Bring the relevant brief, marking criteria and feedback timetable into the review. Ask students to show where they need clarification and work with course teams on a specific response. The reading below connects assessment design, student involvement and the practical work after a survey closes.

  1. Choose one assessment experience to investigate.
  2. Read the comments alongside the material students received.
  3. Agree a change, an owner and a way to check whether students can use it.

Read with a purpose

Selected reading, in a useful order.

Research briefings examine a particular study. Sector Watch articles describe developments and reported practice. The guides explain methods and working processes.

  1. Sector Watch

    QAA roadshow highlights student voice in assessment review

    Start with a practice example: students involved in reviewing assessment rubrics and descriptors.

  2. Sector Watch

    King's module evaluation guidance sets deadlines for responding to student feedback

    Then examine how a university sets responsibilities and timescales for responding to module feedback.

  3. Resource

    Sentiment analysis for UK universities: a practical guide

    Use this guide to keep praise for teaching separate from concerns about assessment feedback.

  4. Teaching Practice

    How can management programmes improve assessment clarity?

    Use a programme-level review of management assessment briefs, calendars and group work.

  5. Teaching Practice

    How can English literature teams improve dissertation support?

    Connect feedback with the next step in an English literature dissertation.

Connect the reading to your own work.

Choose one issue, identify the people who can act on it and agree how students will help interpret the evidence. Keep the original question and context with any comments you use.

If you need support analysing your institution’s comments, analyse assessment-feedback comments.