Engage Actively with your Feedback: Formative Feedback

1. Introduction
2. Formative Feedback
3. Summative Feedback
4. What do you need to do to make the most out of the feedback you receive?

Module Evaluation Surveys

The Module Evaluation Surveys are confidential questionnaires about how things are going on the modules you have taken. Your voice is crucial in helping us to improve your experience and the experience of future students.

Please tell us what you have enjoyed as well as what you feel we can improve on to allow us to further build on your positive experience.

SEF Digital Learning Support

If you experience any issues with QMPlus, such as accessing resources or submitting work. You can contact the SEF Digital Learning team in the following ways (all links open in a new window):

Email: econ-qmplus@qmul.ac.uk
Visit: Graduate Centre, GC306
Book a session with a member of the team
Join our Friday 10-11am drop in sessions on Teams
QMPlus for Students

For any other issues, you can raise it on the AskQM portal

And, finally, the best type of support is to engage actively with your feedback.

2. Formative Feedback

This feedback is provided on pieces of work that are not formally assessed. The aim of formative feedback is to provide you with insights on what you have done well or less well in a particular task so that you can improve your future work. Formative feedback can be provided in a variety of ways:

Weekly problem sets/tasks: lecturers set weekly problem sets/tasks that you are asked to work on throughout the week. Feedback on these problems/tasks and on how you have done on them is provided during the weekly class contact time. Active participation and engagement in the weekly classes is important to know how you are doing and to ask questions that can help your understanding;
Homework Solutions Available Online: solutions to the weekly problem sets/tasks are often made available in written form online on WebCT. This is a type of indirect feedback that allows you to check your own solutions against the correct ones;
Online tests: multiple choice quizzes are often available online for you to test your knowledge in a flexible and interactive way. Feedback on your answers is returned immediately once you make your choices. The overall score is also made available as soon as the test is completed;
Paper-based Multiple Choice Tests: paper-based multiple choice tests are also often used and the solutions with feedback on each question is usually made available in printed form the week after the relevant lecture has been delivered;
Presentations: when you are asked to give a presentation (either alone or in a group) during a class, feedback is usually provided at the end of the presentation. The feedback will be of benefit for both the group/individual who presents but also for all other students who can learn from the lecturer’s comments and the class discussion;
Coursework: you will be asked to write a piece of coursework or to design/develop an experiment/task (either alone or in group). Module organisers and class teachers are available during their office hours to provide you with either one-to-one feedback or group-feedback prior to the submission of the coursework so that you can receive some formative feedback on your work in progress;
One-to-One Feedback: lecturers have regular weekly office hours (publicised on their doors, on the web and available from the reception office) during which they are available to provide feedback on your performance.