A review of the past decade of research on effective feedback confirms supervisors should aim to fill the role of a ‘critical friend’ who provides constructive and timely feedback.
For many students, the experience of teacher-led feedback is underwhelming or negative, and they are effectively left to their own devices.
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Despite heavy investment by universities, student experience of feedback higher education continues to be less than desirable, especially for at-risk students.
Getting input from well-connected academics and researchers is crucial to a paper’s scientific impact.
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The scientific impact of a research paper increases with every additional commenter who provides feedback – particularly if the comment came from a well-connected academic.
Ethiopian universities may suffer if quality assurance systems are too narrowly focused.
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Quality assurance programmes tend to ignore context - which means important elements of teaching and learning are overlooked and universities miss out on a real chance to improve their practices.
When rating their classes, students use different words to describe male and female professors.
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A friend of mine calls me professor of genius studies. It’s a sort of slip of the tongue, as I teach in gender studies, but it‘s also funny because everyone knows that genius is not associated with gender…