Perceptions of the Role of Feedback in Supporting 1 st Yr Learning Jon Scott, Ruth Bevan, Jo Badge & Alan Cann School of Biological Sciences.

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Perceptions of the Role of Feedback in Supporting 1 st Yr Learning Jon Scott, Ruth Bevan, Jo Badge & Alan Cann School of Biological Sciences

Some of the Issues The module effect What is feedback? A common understanding? Expectations Utility & Utilisation

Context 85 1 st year students on Biological Sciences programme 1 st semester assessments –Weekly practical report (from day 10), 5 day turn- round –Weekly tutorials - 3 essays (3 week turn-round), 1 oral presentation Feedback cover sheet –Strengths –Areas for improvement

Methods On-line questionnaire – based on Gibbs’ Assessment Experience Questionnaire Focus Groups Structured interviews with academic staff

Student Participants Questionnaire – 57% of yr group Focus Groups – 25% of yr group

Staff Participants 14 Module Convenors 7 Personal Tutors (non 1 st yr teachers) 1 Student Learning Centre Advisor

Perceptions of Feedback Types Received (Focus Group) Unprompted: –Comments on cover sheets Prompted: –Comments on oral presentations –Annotations on scripts Specifically asked: –Verbal feedback in practical classes, tutorials & personal tutors

Types of Feedback Given (Staff) Written feedback – cover sheets & annotations “They are probably less aware of the direct help they get by talking to people in lab classes, I think”, “… interactions are the most useful in terms of students’ appreciation of things like concepts that you are trying to explain. I think just the nature of handling the number of students in 1 st year practicals means we can’t give immediate feedback in terms of what the correct answer was but concepts, approach and understanding the bigger picture, they should leave with that as feedback”.

Quantity of Feedback On this course I get plenty of feedback in how I am doing 67% The feedback is usually too uninformative or brief to be helpful 35% The more feedback I receive, the more I learn 89%

Quality of Feedback The feedback uses language that is easy to understand 87% The feedback shows me how to do better next time 73% I can seldom see from the feedback what I need to do to improve 35% The feedback does not help me with subsequent assignments 11%

Quality & Utility of Feedback “Sometimes the comments are helpful but sometimes it’s comments like when you get say 60% in a practical report and they tell you it could be ‘better written’. But you’ve done all that you can to write it to the best of your ability, so it’s kind of vague, I don’t know where to improve”. “One of my friends had a higher mark than me and she got more comments than me in the ‘places to improve’. I had nothing and was like ‘well I need to improve and you don’t so why have you got the comments?’. That’s what I was thinking”.

Quality & Utility of Feedback “I got one write up which was 90% and she [the marker] was still like ‘you could improve it here or here’. It was quite a lot of comments considering it was a high mark and it was really good because it was ‘ok, that’s what I need to be doing”.

Timing of Feedback It doesn’t matter if a module has finished before I receive feedback as I know the advice will be relevant to my new module 51% The feedback usually comes back promptly 56% Whatever feedback I receive comes back too late to be useful 15%

Utilisation of Feedback I have received clear and sufficient guidance on how to understand and use feedback 42% I read the feedback carefully and try to understand what is being said 71% I use the feedback to go back over what I have done in the assignment 55% I have good intentions to act on feedback I receive but forget suggestions for improvement next time I do coursework 29% I do not use the feedback when revising31% I tend to only read the marks9%

Utilisation of Feedback “A lot of the time it’ll depend on the mark as to how much I do look at it [the feedback]. If I’ve got a really high mark, I’ll tend to look and think ‘oh I’ve done well’ and just put it away. If I’ve got a really bad mark I’ll look and think what I’ve done wrong, why I got that mark” “If I expect a mark, low or high, and it’s that, I don’t really read the comments. If I get a mark that’s really different from what I expected then I’ll really read the comments”.

Students’ Reflections on Staff Views They probably think we don’t read it and just put it to one side.” “I’m sure some of them think they’re just doing it and it’s a bit pointless and you’re not going to look at it anyway.” “I suppose some of them [markers] must hope that if they bother to write something down then it gets read. But they must accept that there’s a great deal of variation between students”.

Staff Views “I suspect it varies, some will read it all and come to see you to ask what it means. Others, I suspect, only read the marks and check there is not too much red ink….I think if the number reflects what they are expecting then they don’t pay too much attention to it.” “My experience is that feedback is definitely used, it’s a very constructive thing, a useful thing and a good proportion of students are using feedback.”

Action Points Training for students on using feedback More explicit flagging of feedback Encourage follow-up Further guidance for staff on providing feedback