Research Data from Real Students

Dr Tansy Jessop, FASTECH PROJECT MANAGER

Emma Nail, FASTECH Student Fellow

Research data from real students

Dr Tansy Jessop and Emma Nail, Winchester FASTECH Development Day, 2 July 2012

What student fellows do

• interface

• research

• case studies

• digital assets (eg blogs)

• social media

• advocacy

• dissemination

Lecturers

FASTECH team

Students

Case Study: Theology & Religious Studies & History

• Where?UG & PG modules

• Why? efficiency, better feedback; plagiarism awareness

• What?online submission, marking and return

• What process? Moodle VLE, track changes & comments

• Which devices? mainly laptops; some tablets and iPads

What students said

That’s the big advantage of being electronic isn’t it? You don’t have to walk down here, you can send it and receive it without having to make it onto campus.

A: It’s much more environmentally friendly.B: And obviously it’s less cost for us.C: It did save a lot of problems with printing.

I was more worried that if there was any form of plagiarism in my work it would more easily picked up.

Feedback benefits

You get more feedback on the electronic ones.

It made some lecturers’ writing more readable.

if you pick it up from the faculty office you’re kind of like standing up still, so you sort of look at it briefly, you mostly just look at the grades. Whereas when you’re sat at home on your laptop looking at your e-mails you have more time to read through it.

More feedback benefits

When you’re at home you’ll have your PC as well, so you’ll have your current piece of work that you’re working on and then something they’ve marked before on the other side of the screen so you can see exactly where you’ve been marked up or down.

You can’t actually lose it, like you might a piece of paper. Unless you purposely go and delete it.

Educational benefits

E-filing aids use

Detail and quantity of feedback

Privacy aids attention

Plagiarism awareness

Educational drawbacks

disadvantages some students

home internet access

reinforces written feedback

Practical benefits

convenience

cost-effectiveness

paperless

more modern filing system

Practical drawbacks

no receipt given

more difficult for some students

perceptions about staff workload

e-assessment & feedback