This series of workshops is designed to promote understanding of the use of evidence to improve teaching and learning. Participants will explore and discuss the importance of what it means to measure and document teaching impact. There will also be opportunities to work with different types of evidence (e.g. students’ work, assessment data, and reflection logs) to determine and evaluate your teaching impact and to decide where to go next in teaching and learning.
Session 1: Reflections Matter (Wednesday, 26 March 2025) - looks at ways of thinking about what works and what works best in your teaching approaches, i.e., to engage in evaluative thinking about your teaching and learning. To help participants achieve this, a critical first step is to develop reflective habits and practices. This session will guide participants through the process of reflective practice and identify ways to draw on different sources of evidence to evaluate your impact on teaching and learning.
Session 2: Assessment and Feedback Matter (Wednesday, 30 April 2025) - looks at different ways to engage students’ learning through the design of effective assessment and feedback. Participants will discuss and consider approaches on using evidence by interrogating, disaggregating and triangulating different data sources.
Session 3: How Learning Happens Matter (Tentative Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2025) - looks at evidence-based approaches to designing and developing effective learning experiences for your students and how these ‘tried and tested’ methods could help you unpack how learning happens in your courses and what it means as good evidence of teaching impact. Participants will have the opportunity to build your own knowledge base from seminal research studies in education and draw on their implications for practice.
