University College Medical School: Quality Assurance Unit

Programme

The Second National Conference on Student Evaluation: Embedding Evaluation: Working with Students to Close the Loop

Friday 27th February University College London, Wilkins Old Refectory, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT.

In collaboration with:

Time Activity/Title of presentation/Name of speaker

9.15 – 9.30m

Coffee and Registration

9.30 – 9.45am 9.45 -10.15am 10.15 – 10.45am

Welcome and Introduction Key note 1: Amplifying the Student Voice: issues beyond gathering the data, Lord Young, Minister for Students Minister Question and Answer session Keynote 2: The Student Perspective on the Learner Voice, and Translating Statistics into Action, Aaron Porter Vice President (Higher Education) National Union of Students Question and Answer session

10.45 - 11.15am Morning coffee

11.15 – 12.25pm Morning workshops: Workshop 1: Improving Students' understanding of feedback Professor Deborah Murdoch Eaton Workshop 2: The democratic deficit: making student representation more effective. Dr Anita Berlin

12.25 – 1.25pm

Lunch

1.25 – 2.25pm Panel discussion: Student membership of audit and review teams GMC Kristy White, Head of Quality Assurance (Education), student QABME visitor, Quality Assurance Agency: Derfel Owen Development Officer (Students and Enhancement)/ Gillian King

2.25 – 3.40pm (Afternoon coffee during the workshops)

Afternoon workshops: Workshop 3: Making meaningful reports: presenting and disseminating data Mr Pete Walker, Dr Ann Griffin and Ms Lynne Magorrian Workshop 4: Innovations in Placement Evaluation: student-led feedback. Jerry Booth

3.40 – 3.55 3.55 -4.10pm

Closing remarks Tomorrow’s Doctors Review 2009; review of standards for undergraduate medical education. Ben Griffiths

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Presenters’ Details

In collaboration with:

Dr Anita Berlin

Anita Berlin is a general medical practitioner and a senior lecturer in primary care at UCL.

As Sub Dean for Quality in the medical school and Head of its Quality Assurance Unit l her

gaol is to improve the students experience. She has a masters in education from the

Institute of Education where she is currently undertaking a doctorate.

Jerry Booth

Jerry Booth has managed quality and standards at the Hull York Medical School since its

inception in 2003, dealing with both universities and the General Medical Council. The new

school provided an opportunity to experiment with student-centered forms of evaluation

alongside more traditional methods designed to gauge their experience of the curriculum

and its delivery. In 2004, mindful of the importance of clinical placement teaching in the

curriculum Jerry and 2 colleagues secured a grant from the Fund for Innovation and

Development in Teaching and Learning of the University of York to devise workshops which

explore the learning experience with students and prepare them for making individual

detailed observations of the teaching they receive. The notes from these individual

observations are then used in a discussion between the 4 students who make up each

clinical placement group which results in a collectively agreed letter to the tutor about their

teaching. This individually observed and collectively agreed form of appraisal fits quite well

with HYMS’ emphasis on communication skills and discussions of professionalism and it also

leads students to reflect on their own and others’ learning styles.

An account of the process may be found in this month’s issue of Assessment and Evaluation

in Higher Education, and the workshop session will explore how students, particularly those

on vocational courses can be encouraged to participate in improving the provision they are

offered and learn how to give constructive, and if necessary critical feedback to staff.

Dr Ann Griffin

Ann Griffin is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Community Based Medical Education at Barts and

The London, School of Medicine and Dentistry and Honorary Consultant Enfield Primary Care

Trust. She works clinically in general practice in North London. She is involved in

undergraduate and postgraduate education and has various educational roles. She, like

Anita, is currently embarked on a research doctorate at the Institute of Education looking at

evaluation and quality in education.

Ms Lynne Magorrian

Lynne Magorrian has been instrumental in the development of on-line student evaluation for

Community Based Medical Education (CBME) and more recently Barts and the London,

School of Medicine & Dentistry. The success of the work that Lynne was involved in (07/08)

for the pilot means that CBME are no longer using the paper-based evaluation and the

results of which have encouraged the Medical School to adopt the system across

undergraduate teaching.

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Presenters’ Details Continued

In collaboration with:

Pete Walker, Assistant Director ILRT & BOS Service Director

Pete is an IT professional with 20 years experience in the IT industry - in local government, two

software houses and for the past 8 years with the University of Bristol. He leads a team in the

Institute of Learning and Research Technology (ILRT) who specialize in the commercial

development of Web sites and web applications. He directs the Bristol Online Survey (BOS)

service. He is also a member of the management team within the University’s Information

Services. While with the ILRT Pete has also project-managed the Careers in Research Online

Survey (CROS) project - a UK-wide collaborative survey that has involved over 60 UK

Universities issuing a common survey within a bench-marking club. CROS led to the formation

of BOS as a commercial service which in turn enabled the deployment of further national

benchmarking surveys: the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) and the Athena

Survey of Science Engineering and Technology (ASSET) survey.

Lord Young, Parliamentary Under Secretary Of State for Skills and Apprenticeships

Lord Tony Young is currently responsible for engaging employers in Train to Gain, building

employer support for apprenticeships, Skills Pledge, National Skills Academies, Sector Skills

Councils, including Sector Compacts, UK Commission for Employment and Skills. Lord Young is

also Minister for Students.

Lord Young started his career in 1958 as a Telecommunications apprentice for GPO (General

Post Office). During his career, Lord Young was elected Union Branch Officer (1967), and in

1978 was elected to the National Executive Committee. In 1989 he became General Secretary

for the National Communications Union, before the Union merged with the Postal Workers

Union to form the Communications Workers’ Union. He became the joint General Secretary

and then Senior Deputy General Secretary until 2002. Lord Young was a member of the

General Council, Trades Union Congress (TUC) 1989 – 2002, President 2001-2002 and

Governor of BBC in 1998 – 2002.

In 2004, Lord Young was knighted to become Lord Young of Norwood Green in the London

Borough of Ealing.

Handouts and Workshop MaterialsThese will all be available on the UCL website after the conference. The URL will be:

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