How to use your feedback

Plan time to learn new skills

Read the feedback

How to use Your feedback

Identify skills & Resources

Download/log the feedback

Look for patterns & organise

Reflect

Read your feedback

Ensure you have read and understood all your feedback. Ask for clarification from your lecturer if you're unsure e.g you receive the feedback "you need to be more critical in your response". Do you know what "critical" means in your subject area? If not, find out.

Log your Feedback

Download or log your feedback so you can have a copy saved. Keep feedback from different assignments together so you can look for patterns e.g download and save all your assignment feedback for one topic together.

Look for Patterns

Look for recurrent patterns in your feedback e.g does more than one lecturer comment that you could improve the structure of your writing? Or that you need to be more critical? You could use your marking criteria to organise feedback comments by topic. This will give you a visual idea of where your work "sits" in the grade boundaries for each element that makes up your total mark. Remember to look for the good too! This will help you see what you did well, think about how you did it and provide a basis for future work.

Identify skills & Resources

Identify, specifically, which skills and knowledge you need to develop. Consider and select the right resources for you to learn what you need. Is there a Learning Skills Hub module on the topic? Check under the "additional resources" tab for more ideas on where to develop your academic skills. If you can't find a resource for your needs, consider contacting us to make a suggestion for future LSH development.

Reflect on your feedback

What do you already know, but didn't do? Where do you have gaps in your knowledge? Which skills do you need to develop? How will you apply this to your next assessment? E.g You know what critical thinking is, but didn't apply it consistently throughout your essay. Identify where you didn't explain your critical analysis so well, and why.

Plan Time to Learn

Schedule time to learn the skills you have identified. Give these the priority they deserve. Consciously put them into practice in your next formative assessment.