post: Paul Orsmond, Faculty of Sciences, Staffordshire University, Mellor Building, College
Road, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 2DE, United Kingdom.
Expertise and Interests
Educational assessment
Formative assessment
The use of feedback in student learning
Reflection and learning
Current Research
The use of feedback instudent learning
Collaboration with Stephen Merry on the role
of formative assessment in student learning.
Student communities of learning practice
Refereed Publications
Orsmond, P. and Merry, s. (2009)
Processing tutor feedback: a consideration of qualitative differences in learning
outcomes for high achieving and non high achieving students, paper at the
Fostering Communities of Learners, 13th EARLI conference Amsterdam August
25-29, 2009
Orsmond, P and Merry, S. (in press)
Feedback alignment: effective and ineffective links between tutors’
and students’ understanding of coursework feedback, Assessment and evaluation
in Higher Education, tba
Merry, S. & Orsmond, P. (2008)
Students' Attitudes to and Usage of Academic Feedback Provided via Audio Files
Bioscience Education e-journal 11-3.
Orsmond, P. (2007) Educational
research: Biologists finding their voice, Bioscieces Education e-journal 9-C1
Merry, S. & Orsmond, P. (2007)
In: Proceedings of the Science Teaching and Learning Conference 2007, Chin,
P., Clark, K., Doyle, S., Goodhew, P., Madden, T., Meskin, S., Overton, T.
& Wilson, J. (eds) pp 100-104. The Higher Education Academy: York. ISBN
978-1-905788-39-2. Students' Responses to Academic Feedback Provided via mp3
Audio Files.
Orsmond, P. & Merry, S. (2007)
In: Improving Student Learning Through Teaching, Rust, C. (ed) pp 255-266.
OCSLD: Oxford. ISBN 978-1-873567-75-5. Considering Biology Students' Approaches
to Assessment: Some Lessons for Teaching Strategies
Orsmond, P., Merry, S,. and Sheffield,
D. (2006) A quantitative and qualitative study of changes in the use of learning
outcomes and distractions by students and tutors during a biology poster assessment,
Studies in Educatioanl Evaluation, 32(3) , 262-287.
Stiles, M. and Orsmond, P. (2001). Using COSE
to manage active student learning. Kogan Press (Chapter in press)
Merry, S,. Orsmond, P., Reiling, K, (2000)
7th International Improving Student Learning Symposium, Oxford Brookes University,
Oxford. tab, Biological essays: how do students use tutor feedback
Orsmond, P., Merry, S,. Reiling, K, (2000)
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 24 [4] pp tba, The
use of student derived marking criteria in peer and self assessment
Merry, S,. Orsmond, P., Reiling, K, (1998)
5th International Improving Student Learning Symposium, Oxford Brookes University,
Oxford. 202-205, Students’ and Tutors’ perception of ‘A good essay’
Orsmond, P., Merry, S,. Reiling, K, (1997)
Research in Education, 58, pp 81-84, Students’ and Tutors’ perception
of ‘A good essay’
Orsmond, P. (1997) The New Academic. Summer,
10-13, Peer Observation of Teaching: A Report on a Pilot Study
Orsmond, P., Merry, S,. Reiling, K. (1997)
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 22 [4], pp 357-369.
A study in Self Assessment: Tutor and Students' perceptions of performance.
Orsmond, P., Merry, S,. Reiling, K. (1996)
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 21[3], pp 239-250,
The Importance of Marking Criteria in the Use of Peer Assessment
Workshops presented/co-presented
Learning through Assessment Centre
for Biosciences Newcastle University 17th January, 2007 Topic: Invited workshop
on self-assessment
Learning through Assessment Centre
for Biosciences Newcastle University 17th January, 2007 Topic: Feedback provided
by MP3 audio files.
Inviation to deliver Master Class
on self- and – peer-assessment Open University of the Netherlands 2nd
March 2007.
HE Academy Students Supporting
Student Assessment conference in London 21st March, 2007 Topic Peer-assessment
and feedback.
Centre for Biosciences Pedagogic
Research meeting, Oxford Brookes University, 1st May 2007 Topic Undertakening
qualitatitve reserach
Annual Bioscience conference Keele
University May 2007. Topic: Students' responses to academic feedback provided
via mp3 audio files
EARLI Conference 2007, University
University of Szeged Eötvös Loránd University Hungarian Academy
of Sciences August 2007 Topic: Invited symposium entitled Optimizing peer
assessment for learning
EARLI Conference 2007, University
University of Szeged Eötvös Loránd University Hungarian Academy
of Sciences August 2007 Topic: Use of feedback during the assignment process
Designing Assessment in the 21st
Century – The International Advisory Group of ASKe Oxfordshire 14th
and 15th November 2007.
Centre for Biosciences, Differentitated
Learning – Stretching Able Students 14th January 2009. Topic The Use
of feedback by High and Non-high Achieving Students.
Centre for Physical Sciences,
Marking the Most of Peer Assessment 21st January 2009, Key Note he Role of
Peer Assessment in Student Learning: A personal View.
Orsmond, P.(2009) Symposium ‘Soco-cultural
influences on the giving and receiving of feedback Organiser at the Fostering
Communities of Learners, 13th EARLI conference Amsterdam August 25-29, 2009
Academic Background
Senior Lecturer Biology School of Science
Staffordshire University, 1992-present
MA. Staffordshire University, 1999 An Evaluation
of the use of Handouts within the Biology Division of Staffordshire University,
supervised by Arthur Callanghan.
B.Sc. Applied Biology upper second class honours,
Hatfield Polytechnic, 1986
Current Roles in Biology Division
Technician Learning and Teaching Workshop
Coordinator
Peer Observation Coordinator
Negotiated Module Coordinator
Current Roles in School of Sciences
Personal Tutor
Member of the School Peer Observation Co-Ordination
Team
Modules Tutored in Biology
Drugs and the Human Body
Fundamentals of Physiology
Neurobiology
Work Placement
Critical Reflective Practice
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