From Feedback to Learning

Florence Afolabi, Sally Graham, Joy Jarvis, Amanda Roberts & Lewis Stockwell

Faculty of Humanities, Law & Education

A year ago...

Key Findings

The effect of feedback on confidence – both positive and negative

Lack of student understanding of some of the language used by staff in feedback

Students not always seeing how feedback could be used for a subsequent piece of work

Using the findings

with staff

externally

with students

Student to Student ‘Feedback for Learning’

Workshops for Yr 1 students

across HLE Faculty

Changes in Staff Practice

• New assignment front cover sheet to emphasise what thestudent needs to do in the next assignment

• Feedback response forms for students to record theirfeedback and strategies for development

• Name ‘office hours’ changed to ‘student drop-in times’ toemphasise staff availability

• More formative feedback during assignment writing

• More reference by staff to prior feedback

Student researchers’ engagement with students and staff

Supporting other students

Working with staff on new modules

Acting as consultants for projects

Student researchers at levels 4-7Focus on strategies to develop writingLTI enhancement award

Development of a School Student

Researcher Project

Research into one cohort of yr 1 students’

perceptions, experience and use of feedback

Perceptions on entry to UH:

Perceptions after receiving first assignmentfeedback:

ConstructiveHelpfulUseful

UnhelpfulConfusingUnclear

What’s the issue?

Difference from previous experience of feedback which was likely to have been focussed, specific and related to ongoing work

Students unclear about how to use advice forimprovement – issues of strategies and agency

I’ve got to work it out for myself!

That is independent

learning!student view staff view

Implications for Feedback Practice

spoon-feeding? scaffolding?

What tools/resources/strategies do students need to be able to become independent learners?

Developing Resources

HLE Faculty‘Learn from Feedback’

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HbbCNIr-z4

Students and Staff Working in Partnership in Learning and Teaching