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SUMMARY:Improving the use of Academic Assessment Feedback: Effective Student Mentoring Strategies.
DESCRIPTION:[dt_quote type="blockquote" font_size="big" animation="none" background="plain"]Click here to view the Seminar Report[/dt_quote]\n\nPresenter:\n\nProf Liz Thomas (Professor of Higher Education at Edge Hill University).\n\nLiz Thomas is an independent researcher and consultant for higher education and Professor of Higher Education at Edge Hill University. She is visiting professor of Academic Development at Staffordshire University.\n\nLiz has over fifteen years’ experience of undertaking and managing research about widening participation\, student retention and success and institutional approaches to improving the student experience. She is committed to using research to inform national and institutional policy\, practice and evaluation\, and has developed and led change programmes to facilitate this.\n\n \n\nThe presentation being delivered by Professor Thomas will focus on how academic advising and personal tutoring can make a significant contribution to improving assessment feedback with a view to improving\, developing\, and enhancing programme related study performance.\n\nProfessor Thomas will discuss how to review and develop academic advising or personal tutoring systems drawing on research evidence about:\n\n• Different models of academic advising and personal tutoring.\n\n• The ways in which academic advising/personal tutoring enhance student interpretation and implementation of academic assessment.\n\n• Effective approaches to academic advising and personal tutoring.\n\n• Elements of effective advising/tutoring that can be used to review provision.\n\nBroader themes/issues surrounding student tutoring will also be addressed\, specifically:\n\n•    How mass higher education and resource constraints have put pressures on the traditional models of academic support just when increased student numbers and greater diversity has made the need for one-to-one and small group learning more urgent.\n\n•    The benefits of greater interaction and engagement to support students as they make the transition into higher education and progress through it successfully\, specifically in relation to assessment for learning.\n\n•    Alternative ways of conceptualizing personal tutoring and effective ways of implementing appropriate support systems at strategic and practical levels.\n\n•    The implications for training\, development and support needs of university staff in this changing environment.\n\n \n\nLearning Outcomes\n\nInstitutional\n\n1.    This presentation will increase the awareness of effective mentoring strategies in relation to assessment for/as learning for higher education institutions to facilitate strategic institutional planning.\n\nNational\n\n2.    This presentation will also demonstrate how gaining broader insight and understanding of how student mentoring plays a vital role in assessment for/as learning may influence how national education policy is directed.\n\nInternational\n\n3.    This presentation will highlight the national and international comparability of student mentoring strategies in relation to assessment for/as learning\, to potentially facilitate the design and reordering of components of the higher education experience.
URL:https://www.teachingandlearning.ie/event/improving-the-use-of-academic-assessment-feedback-effective-student-mentoring-strategies/
LOCATION:University of Limerick\, Limerick\, Limerick\, Ireland
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CATEGORIES:National Seminar Series
ORGANIZER;CN="David%20Moloney":MAILTO:David.maloney@ul.ie
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