Feed-Forward, Not Feedback: Rethinking Project Based Assessment
summary
Redesign breaks a single end-term project into staged deliverables with feed-forward workshops the week before each deadline, peer critiques scored for quality of critique not marks, and a final public showcase; students build dashboards in Plotly Dash across a ~400–500 students cohort. Code is deliberately unmarked; assessment targets design, judgment, communication and iterative improvement. Result: most teams have a submittable product a week early, fewer last-minute failures, higher engagement and measurable gains in feedback quality and project outcomes.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Feed-forward assessment intro
- 4:44Project-based learning motivations
- 7:13Redesigning assessments
- 10:45Implementing feed-forward workshops
- 13:36Adapting to AI in assessments
- 17:47Student feedback and outcomes
- 20:38Generalizing for educators
- 21:00Q&A
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