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3:18pm on Wednesday, 24th April, 2019:
Anecdote
It was the CE317 revision lecture today.
Revision lectures are where we have to hand out the Student Assessment of Module and Teaching forms. It's from these that our performance is judged for the year.
I actually knew most of the faces present this time round, which was a refreshing change. Most years, there are people at the revision lectures whom I am meeting for the first time but whose reports on my teaching carry just as much weight as those who haven't missed a single lecture or class. I thought I might have got a high mark this time round because of this, but it's not going to happen.
I know it's not going to happen because I was asked when the feedback for the assignment was going to be released. I thought it already had been released, and indeed was correct. Unfortunately, it transpired that although the feedback as a whole had been released, the feedback for each individual student was marked as hidden. I had to go through every student clicking on a slider next to their name to release the feedback. Furthermore, I had to do this after the lecture because eduroam wasn't connecting me to the Internet and the cable wasn't connecting me to anything other than itself.
Feedback is one of the big features of the SAMT forms. We're constantly criticised for our low scores for feedback, so it's strongly emphasised. I'd written my feedback, had it released in good time, but the students were unaware because it was released as hidden. I'm going to get no marks for my feedback from this cohort as a result.
All those evenings and weekends I spent marking were for nothing. I may as well have done it all at a more leisurely pace.
One of the students did tell me afterwards that he enjoyed my module, and encouraged me to keep on teaching the high-end, meaning-of-games content. I shall, but fear that I may be asked to tone it down as it goes over the heads of most of the students, especially if it's reported in the SAMT forms; everything in those Requires Action.
In the revision lecture itself, I warned the students yet again that I would deduct a mark if any of the mis-spelled the word "lose".
This was in an email from the Head of School yesterday: "It is of course sad to loose colleagues but they have secured wonderful positions and we should see this as a way of enlarging the Essex family."
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