A&F Practice Enhancement Tool
About the A&F PET
The Asssessment & Feedback Practice Enhancement Tool is an annual survey to support our teaching staff. It will allow staff to feed back their experiences of embedding the Learning through Assessment (LTA) in their teaching. The A&F PET 2025 will launch on the 26th March 2025 and stay open until April 26th, 2025.
A&F PET 2025
The development of the Assessment & Feedback Practice Enhancement Tool (PET) 2025 is currently underway. Launching on the 26th March, this survey will help teaching colleagues reflect on their assessment practices and consider how they currently align with the University’s Learning Through Assessment framework. It will also give Schools and Colleges insights to support a review of areas that could strengthen and enhance assessment.
We wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you to those who completed the PET in 2024 and helped us reach colleagues across the University. Due to the considerable engagement with the A&F PET in 2024, further support for colleagues was able to be rolled out across the University:
- Introduction of a Assessment & Feedback Hub; to enhance the support for teaching staff to change assessment and feedback practices.
- Assessment Changes Workshops led by Academic and Digital Development to support assessment changes at a College level.
- The LTA has been embedded in learning on the PGCAP, with 120 staff annually benefitting from learning on it.
- Assessment workshops planned for joint programmes with UESTC.
2024 Dashboards
The A&F PET 2024 Dashboards are available for all staff at the University of Glasgow. We are asking Colleges and Schools to review their results and work to develop areas for improvement in their teaching practice.
The Assessment & Feedback Practice Enhancement Tool saw an encouraging uptake across all Colleges at the University of Glasgow. We wanted to take this opportunity to thank all those who took the time to share their practice.
How do you navigate the dashboards?
The results of the Practice Enhancement Tool will provide Colleges with an overview of areas within their teaching that align with the Learning Through Assessment pillars, and areas where further support and development might be needed.
Prof. Wendy Anderson talks about navigating the A&F PET Dashboards:
- The A&F PET dashboards display two views, a University view split by College, and a College view split by School.
- The left-hand side bar of each dashboard allows navigation to each question and the results are split by LTA pillar (i.e. Meaningful, Iterative, Programmatic and Inclusive assessment and feedback). Each question allows you to select your School, College and filter all question responses.
- The filter options will allow you to highlight your chosen response. This can use useful to focus on specific response topics.
We are recommending that Schools and Colleges look at their data and look at how well it aligns with the Learning Through Assessment Framework. Steps can then be taken where necessary to make assessment and feedback more meaningful, iterative, programmatic, and inclusive.
Where do I go to get more information and support?
The Learning Through Assessment framework is available on the Assessment & Feedback Resources Hub. It sets out the University of Glasgow’s approach to assessment, based around the principle that assessment can and should support students’ learning, from the beginning of their university career until graduation and beyond.
The Assessment & Feedback Resources Hub also has a number of exemplars of best practice that aligns with the LTA. These can help give insight into how other areas of the University are diversifying their assessment and feedback.
For more information, contact your School’s Learning & Teaching Convenor or email the Assessment & Feedback Practice & Policy workstream.