Making learning happen through smarter assessment and feedback

Professor Phil Race
ALT (Assessment, Learning and Teaching) Visiting Professor, Leeds Metropolitan University and Independent Higher Education Consultant.

My mission is to improve and enhance the quality of students' learning, by helping teaching staff to develop their methods and approaches, and by helping students to develop their own learning skills. I am also particularly interested in the design of assessment instruments and processes, and I am keen that both assessment and feedback should play positive and motivating roles in student learning.

I am one of very few people who work in both higher and further education, and on both sides of the teaching-learning equation, working with students to develop their learning skills, and working with staff to develop their teaching methods. My publications span both of these fields. I am particularly keen to de-mystify assessment, learning and teaching, and to get ideas across without recourse to some of the complex jargon too often encountered in the literature in these fields.

Download Chapter 2: Five factors underpinning successful learning from Making Learning Happen
Download Chapter 5: Learning through feedback from Making Learning Happen

Selected Authored Books

• Race, P and Brown S (2001) The ILTA Guide available online at www.Education.Guardian.co.uk by searching for 'ILTA', or downloading the text file direct from my website www.phil-race.com
• Race, P (2001) Self, Peer and Group Assessment Higher Education Academy, York, UK
• Race, P (2001) Students' Guide to Assessment Higher Education Academy, York, UK .
• Anderson, D and Race, P (2002) Effective On-line Learning - The Trainer's Toolkit Ely, UK, Fenman.
• Brown, S and Race, P (2002) Lecturing: a Practical Guide London, Routledge.
• Race, P (2003) How to Study: Practical Tips for Students Oxford, Blackwell.
• Allison, B and Race, P (2004) The student's guide to preparing dissertations and theses London, UK, Routledge.
• Brown, S, Race, P and Smith, B (2005) 500 Tips on Assessment: 2nd edition London, Routledge.
• Race, P (2005) 500 Tips on Open and Online Learning: 2nd edition London, Routledge.
• Race, P and Brown, S (2005) 500 Tips for Tutors: 2nd edition London, Routledge.
• Race, P (2005) Making Learning Happen London, Sage Publications.