Feedback loop and continuous assessment - poster - PhD course

Description:

During the PhD course Science teaching at Aarhus University, Denmark the PhD students develop a new teaching activity for a course where they functioning as teaching assistants.

The purpose of the tasks included in the development of the teaching activity is to showcase different teaching methods to the students e.g. use of exemplars, peer assessment with assessment criteria and feedback loops.

The PhD students start by reading poster examples of teaching activities developed by previous students. These examples (also called exemplars) provide inspiration for the development of teaching activities in their own course. In addition they assess the exemplars with the same assessment criteria that they will use later in the course when giving peer feedback to their peers.

The exemplars also inspire the development of a group teaching activity that will be enacted during class.

The development of the teaching activity is an out-of-class activity between course day 2 and 3 where the students receive feed-forward from the educator on their initial ideas. After the development and implementation of the teaching activity the PhD students make a draft poster describing the teaching activity. All students provide and receive peer feedback according to the assessment criteria and hereafter upload a revised poster that will be assessed by the educator.