1. PebblePad Enabled Academic Appraisal
Juliet Hinrichsen, Head of Academic Professional Development
Mandy Brailsford, Principal Lecturer/Professional Lead: Advancing Practice

2. Background
Strategic Enhancement Project: Career Progression and Staff Transitions
Follow-on funding: desk-based research

3. Literature review
Stewardship approaches focus on long-term outcomes through people’s knowledge and values, autonomy and shared leadership within a high trust environment.
Agency approaches focus on short-term results or outputs through greater monitoring and control.
Most UK HEIs adopt a combination of stewardship and agency performance management mechanisms but most institutions are moving towards an increased adoption and greater use of agency mechanisms.
Performance Management in UK Higher Education Institutions: The need for a hybrid approach Franco-Santos, Rivera & Bourne (2014)

4. The 'Bookend' Model
Disarticulation of managerial (agency) functions from developmental(stewardship) aims
Focus on the middle - the books
Integrates Peer Review and Enhancement (PRE) and professional good standing (RIGS)

5. Bookend in PebblePad Assets: Professional Development
Workbook: Annual report
consider your own professional and personal development goals
self-directed activity over the year
Peer review and enhancement activity (PRE)
agree objectives for year ahead with manager
share with manager (permissions: copy, comment)
reviewer adds comment (optional)
reflection on and recording of outcomes for the year
share with appraiser (permissions: copy & comment)
reviewer adds feedback and comment on the year
Workbook: Work Planning

7. Issues
perception: format
reluctance: online
integration/universality

8. Table 6: PLS for appraisal
what were the key points from the presentation?
the problem of ownership of the appraisal process requires control to be located with the appraisee
only summative elements need to be shared with managers
appraisal naturally articulates developmental elements (cpd, peer review) with outputs (achievements, good standing)
difficult to shift perceptions from format (workbook as a form) to process (PLS as an owned space to manage career development)
The key points of the discussion
The tension between the development al aspirations and increasing managerialism
HR engagement is key
Evaluating impact and evidence
Badges REALLY useful
Quality of discussion may be enhanced