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Feedback Calendars: Lessons so far
By
Steve Draper,
Department of Psychology,
University of Glasgow.
See link to this paper on the conf. website:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_223398_en.pdf
Title: Feedback Calendars: Lessons so far
Date/time: Thursday 17 April 2012.
Session: 5B, 14:35 - 15:05pm
Occasion:
5th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference
Place: The Fore Hall
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Abstract
Feedback calendars are, administratively, a simple, cheap and sustainable
device that publishes to the students on each course not just when their work
must be handed in, but when it will be returned and with what types of
feedback. With respect to students, the hope is that this will make students
more aware of the feedback they get. In fact students do not usually get any
statement from staff about what feedback is for or how it could be useful.
At the least, feedback calendars show that staff consider it an important part
of the course. They may also tend to promote a more active approach to
feedback and doing something with it. (This could be complemented e.g. by
using elective feedback (having students attach questions for the marker to
their work).) With respect to staff, the hope is that listing the feedback
explicitly and in one place will naturally prompt reflection on this (costly)
aspect of course design and delivery.
The columns / prompts, either in their own or other courses' calendars,
could prompt consideration of various facets of feedback. For example: is
the feedback (or should it be) written or oral? From staff or from fellow
students or both? Discussed or just "delivered" like a one-way missile? How
many words? On what following occasion, and how, could this feedback
possibly be acted on?
This talk will present the basic rationale, and discuss the different types of
information that could be included, and which have each a place in the theory
and literature on feedback. Finally, efforts to promote adoption to date will
be reported (about six went into use in semester 1, 2011).
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