{"id":701,"date":"2014-06-20T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T16:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/gmoof\/?p=701"},"modified":"2014-06-20T16:25:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T16:25:21","slug":"southampton-feedback-champion-impressions-student-representative-giles-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/gmoof\/southampton-feedback-champion-impressions-student-representative-giles-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a Southampton Feedback Champion: Impressions from a student representative (by Giles Howard)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Giles<\/a>When I first received the email about Feedback Champions, I knew immediately I wanted to do it \u2013 I represent the students of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering in countless meetings, and if there\u2019s one topic that invariably comes up, it is feedback and \u201cwhat students think about feedback\u201d \u2013 a question that is as difficult to answer as it sounds!<\/p>\n

I think a lot about feedback \u2013 as Faculty Officer, and previously a course rep, it seemed to be the number one complaint that students had with modules, and I was always on the lookout for ways to improve it. So, knowing that both staff and students were concerned about feedback, but both groups seemed to not really be seeing eye-to-eye on the subject; this project was ideal for me as it let me get hands-on and discover exactly what each group thought!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve thoroughly enjoyed the interview process \u2013 it\u2019s always interesting to ask a question and realise that someone had never thought of feedback in that way before. For example, most students I interviewed didn\u2019t view that having a quick chat with a lecturer after lectures is a form of feedback, or that working in groups is itself feedback! I was also surprised to find out that most people actually felt that feedback from peers who had worked with them on a piece of work was actually more valuable to them than lecturer feedback for the most part \u2013 this whole project has really opened my eyes to the wide variety of views that both staff and students have.<\/p>\n

I really think that this project is going to enable a lot of good practices in feedback and assessment, which I\u2019m excited to see! There were some very good practices that I uncovered during my interviews, and I\u2019m sure all of the other feedback champions feel similarly! With the work that we\u2019ve done so far, and the upcoming work over the summer, I\u2019m very excited to see the changes that this project effects, and hopefully we\u2019ll be seeing some real improvement in feedback practice very soon! It\u2019s also been really great to work with so many ambitious and engaged people who just want to improve the university and the experience for both staff and students.<\/p>\n

Giles Howard
\n2nd Year, MEng Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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