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RUSSELL CRAWFORD
FEEDBACK TO THE FUTURE
The event was part funded by an award from the Teaching Innovation
Scheme at Keele and principally funded by the British Psychological
Society, Developmental Section which also provided a small pot of
funds to encourage post graduate attendance in the form of small
travel bursaries.
research interests, given time to network and talk to one another
and then each participant was asked to write two action points
they would like to follow up on in the coming months, these were
collected and posted out to the participants 1 month post-event as
a reminder of their thoughts from the day.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Mark Ormarod opened the event
with some encouraging words and an institutional insight into the
importance of feedback, drawing on his own teaching as well as
his vision of the higher education sector. This introduction was
followed by a presentation from Dr Andrew Morris (Keele Medical
School) on feedback and its use in the Inter-Professional Education
(IPE) programme at Keele, specifically talking about multi-source
feedback and its application in this setting. Next up was Adrian
Molyneux (Keele Medical School), who talked about his experience
of using iPad / tablet technology to collect and improve feedback
delivery in practical exam scenarios. BPS member Dr. Sarah Rose
(Staffordshire University) then presented her work on improving
students’ engagement with feedback from college to university
levels. After a short break, the first of two keynote speakers was
Prof. Paul Bartholomew (Aston University), who presented his own
thought-provoking take on the importance of feedback, with some
contentious ideas that promoted a slew of questions and comments
and some deep discussion from participants. This was followed by
Dr. Russ Crawford (LPDC) and Dr. Yvonne Skipper (Keele School of
Psychology and BPS member) presenting their pilot work exploring
the psychophysiology of feedback which was recently showcased
at the annual European Association for Research on Learning and
Instruction (EARLI) international conference in Cyprus.
Overall, the event was very successful in inspiring discussion and
debate around feedback and promoting changes in practice. In
future we hope to organise similar events to again bring together
educators from different institutions and from school through to
university to facilitate dialogue and promote good practice.
After a top-tier lunch (including hot wedges!), the talks resumed
with Nick Garnett (PhD student, School of Psychology, Keele) and
Lizzie Marshall (The Wistaston Acadmey) who co-presented on
their work using a feedback intervention in schools, followed by
Lee Davies (Sandon College) who gave an interesting presentation
on his evaluation of a full school feedback review. The next
presentation was from Dr. Julie Hulme (Keele School of Psychology)
who talked about way of facilitating student learning through
reflection on feedback, which again prompted discussion from the
event participants. Then was second keynote of the day and the
closing presentation from BPS member, Prof. Patrick Leman (Kings
College London) who summed up many of the strands of research
and inquiry of the day whilst adding some reflections from his own
teaching experience.
The final activity of the day was labelled “speed dating” and involved
participants being mixed into small groups based on their own