Hi, I think there are quite a few uni lecturers and teachers on this site so I hope one of you (or more) can help.
Dd had to give a presentation yesterday in one of her classes as part of the coursework. The format was 7 min presentation followed by 7 min q&a and feedback. Dd was last to go and because earlier people had overrun she did not get enough time and only got 1 question and the feedback was limited to telling her she'd got it wrong. And this took place in front of her class as they packed up and the next class who were already coming in due to the late running.
Dd feels humiliated by the way in which this happened and, more importantly is worried that she doesn't know where and in what way she went wrong as she didn't get any useful feedback.
I think she probably needs to get over the humiliation, and have suggested she emails the lecturer to arrange a time to go through her presentation and get proper feedback. She sent an email last night and I assume will get a reply so that aspect will get dealt with.
The aspect that bothers me, but has not yet occurred to dd, is that this was an assessed presentation and I don't see how she can have had a fair assessment given she got 5 mins and 1 question compared to the 20 mins and multiple questions the other students had. She was not given any chance to explain her thinking or correct anything in the same way the others did and it seems to me very unfair if this is going to cost her marks towards her final degree grade.
How would you recommend she approach this? Is it worth asking for a rerun of the exercise and if so who should she ask?
And any other advice I can pass on would be greatly appreciated - she is feeling very down about the whole thing at the moment. Thanks for your help.
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MrsWobble3 · 22/11/2016 08:22
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