CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Transforming Feedback: Research and Development – Thursday 28 June 2018 Manchester, UK

Feedback is a challenging aspect of Higher Education academic practice. Despite considerable efforts across the sector to enhance the effectiveness of feedback and address student concerns, successive National Student Surveys continue to highlight assessment and feedback issues.  At the same time, considerable advances have been made with theorising and rethinking the notion of feedback, challenging assumptions and current practices. We might consider, for example, the consequences of tension between the neoliberal, high accountability policy framework of higher education and the development of feedback that promotes self-regulated learning.

Keynote Speaker: Feedback for the longer term: Developing student feedback literacy

Professor David Carless University of Hong Kong

Proposals

This one-day conference is an opportunity for university leaders, academic developers, researchers and student representatives to debate the challenges, dilemmas and possibilities for transforming feedback processes at a fundamental level. Contributions are particularly encouraged, which seek to stimulate debate and critical engagement with current practices as well as with theory and research evidence.  Proposals for this conference must focus on feedback and may include evaluation of innovative practice or practitioner research projects, but they must all be underpinned by advanced scholarship.