Engage Actively with your Feedback: Summative 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.

3. Summative Feedback

This feedback is provided on coursework (e.g., essay, report, presentation, in-class tests) that is part of a module’s assessment. It gives you a critical evaluation of the quality of your coursework together with suggestions on how you can improve your performance in future assessment. Summative feedback can be 1) individual when you receive personal feedback on a coursework you submitted or contributed to; 2) group when the group you work with receives an overall feedback; 3) general when feedback is provided to the whole class and not necessarily to each individual student (for example, the solutions to a multiple choice test); 4) indirect when feedback given to a student can also benefit other students (e.g., feedback on a presentation).

Presentations: when you are asked to give an individual or group assessed presentation, you will receive feedback at the end of the presentation from both the class teacher and the other students in the class. If you are not presenting but only attending the presentation, you will receive some indirect feedback and learn from the class discussion;
Email Feedback: written or oral feedback can be further complemented by some additional feedback by email. You can also approach by email an individual tutor and ask for some feedback/explanation on a specific issue that you might find difficult to fully understand;
Written Feedback on Coursework: for coursework where you are asked to submit a written piece of work (e.g., essay, report) you will receive written feedback both on a summary feedback page and throughout the piece of work;
One-to-One Feedback: you can book an appointment during office hours to receive some one-to-one feedback on your coursework. Small-group feedback sessions can also be organised by lecturers during their office hours;
In-Class Test Feedback: feedback on in-class tests is provided through a class discussion where the solutions are provided and the common mistakes are pointed out. The feedback is also geared towards explaining how you can improve the quality of your work in future tests by, for example, improving the structure of your answers;
Recorded Feedback: audio podcasts posted on WebCT are also another form of general feedback made available to the whole cohort of students in a module.