Got Your Feedback?
It helps you develop your writing and academic skills, your knowledge of your course; It helps you learn from your mistakes as well as what you’re doing right.
Got Your Feedback?
Feedback is there so you can apply it to later work to help you improve your marks and finish university with a degree that you can be proud of. Did you know….UCLan is one of the highest scoring universities for feedback in the UK on the National Student Survey. We’re pretty good at it! Here at the union, we want to make sure you get the most out of what you’re tutors are telling you so that you can do better on your degree!
When do I get feedback?
You get feedback in life every day, a lot of the time without even realising it. It helps us shape our lives and what we do. It can come in many different forms. There’s generic feedback and individual feedback. Currently, the university states that you should receive feedback within 15 working days. This means generic feedback, which will be received by the whole group or class, a conversation with your tutor before your work is handed in or even comments from another student. However, you should always get individual feedback from your tutor. This could be hand written, typed, audio, spoken, or a one-to-one tutorial. Don’t forget, if you do a practical subject, you get feedback throughout, for example, your tutor might look at some of your work in class and tell you where to improve it, or your classmates might watch a rehearsal and suggest something that will help it progress.
So what’s the campaign for?
Here in the union, we want you to be getting the education you deserve, and that includes feedback that you can use! We want you to think about how you get it and what you do with it. For example, do you get your feedback as an audio recording? Do you note down in your work where you need to make improvements and refer to it in your next piece of work? Or do you not really understand where you went wrong?
Survey time!
You’ve been working extremely hard and you deserve a break. Fancy filling in our survey while you have one? It takes 15 minutes and we’d really appreciate your input! Head to www.surveymonkey.com/s/7PDRCNL and let us know what you think!
How do you use yours?
We want to put together some examples of how you use your feedback to share with other students. It hugely important for you to engage with the feedback you’re getting as it’s given to you to help you improve. Do you note down areas you need to improve on? Do you arrange a meeting with your tutor to discuss it? Do you plan your next piece of work based on your feedback? Basically, how do you engage with your feedback?
Email your method to Becca, the Education Officer, at sueducation@uclan.ac.uk and let us know.
Go on, how do you use yours? Show us what you got!
As well as telling us how you use yours, we’d also like to see good and bad examples of feedback you’ve had back from tutors. For example, did you receive feedback that you didn’t understand, or maybe you were just given a mark and no feedback whatsoever? Or did you receive a brilliant piece of feedback in a format that you could understand better, explained where you went wrong and gave you advice on how to improve? We want to put these examples together to take to the university to give them their own feedback on the work they’re doing!
Email Becca at sueducation@uclan.ac.uk or drop into the SAC office (first floor of the Union).
We’ll be out and about round campus speaking to as many people as possible, so keep an eye out and if you see us, come over and say hi!
