IMPROVING TEACHING AND LEARNING USING STUDENT APPRAISALS: A CASE STUDY OF A TERTIARY INSTITUTE
Abstract
Feedback is being used in education to improve teaching and learning. Through feedback,
students are able to gauge their performance and teachers are also able to retrieve
information to be used to design assessment and make adjustments for improvement.
There are various types of feedback that are being discussed in this project, these include
descriptive, evaluative, motivational and effective. These forms of feedback have
different purposes which can be summarized to make improvement in the teaching and
learning process. Feedback is being used in the education system to achieve learning
goals and to inform students if they are on the right track or not. There are various ways
in which feedback may be done to ensure that it is effective, the following must be
considered, timely, clear and specific, user friendly to name a few. This project argues
that student appraisal may be used to improve teaching and learning in a tertiary
institution. This project also focuses on the use of student feedback to provide feedback
to the Teaching and Learning Development Unit to design student activities as well as
professional development session solely to bring about quality assurance. Both students
and teachers in the tertiary institution have been used as participants of this project.
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