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DIY escape room testing and evaluation: can you break out of negative feedback cycles

Course information

Understanding how to deliver and utilise feedback is important in every aspect of life.  DIY escape room testing and evaluation: can you break out of negative feedback cycles will introduce you to strategies for successfully providing and receiving feedback, including how to maximise its value for future performance.

After exploring feedback in theory, including why it can make us so uncomfortable, you'll work in teams to attempt to solve an escape room designed by your peers in a previous workshop (Build your own escape room: (critical) thinking outside the box), themed around 'the Lost Charter: a quest to re-discover the founding document of the University of St Andrews before time runs out!' . 

You'll discuss and agree structured feedback on the puzzles, simultaneously building critical thinking and teamworking skills as you apply theory to communicate the positives and negatives of the escape room experience.

Please note: participants from the Build your own escape room can also join this workshop and will be assigned to solve and provide feedback on puzzles created by a different team.

Aims and objectives

Saints Professional Development is a programme of skills development workshops focused on experiential, interactive learning and tangible outcomes. Don't just take notes - take part, and take away new skills and ideas to build your future.

Learn: principles of giving and receiving constructive feedback
Do: work in a team to break out of an escape room designed by your peers and provide structured feedback
Leave with: enhanced knowledge on feedback strategies to apply in different contexts

Tutors

Heather Curtis

Venue

Small Rehearsal Room, Students' Association

Course provider

IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk