Technology enhanced feed-forward
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207 Technology enhanced feed-forward for learning
Sue Rodway-Dyer, Matthew Newcombe, Liz Dunne
(same room as the last session so no frantic running around)
Research paper. Not technology oriented, but teaching and learning.
Video of teacher circulating in a lab talking to students, checking their work, answering questions, asking them questions, praising, and explaining.
Feedback is a misnower, more interested in ‘feedforward’. Needs to be usable for staff and students. Example video is now used as part of training for new staff as well as for ‘feedforward’ to students.
Students don’t pay attention to extensive verbal feedback in labs, and don’t value it as such. Watching video after the fact is very helpful.
Stimulated recall: when you play the audio/video back to lecturer afterwards, then interview them afterwards about what they think the quality of their feedback was.
39% of students felt they got no feedback ever. They weren’t able to recognise the feedback that took part in the lab that the video caught actually happening.
capturing live video feedback time consuming (post processing etc)
audio feedback expected to be better than written – with tone of voice brining the feedback to life over written text, is it?
- 80% of students wanted audio and written feedback
- 20% thought written feedback was illegible
- 10% thought feedback written and audio would have no impact on future performance
- 76% wanted face-to-face feedback
- advantage of audio feedback is greater depth and clarity
- negative experience: did not like tone of voice, especially with critical comments
- some could not listen to the audio feedback all the way through
Stimulated Recall:
- balance between criticism and praise might need to be altered to be more positive to make audio feedback easier to hear for students
- inappropriate language and terminology easy to slip into audio feedback than written
- may come acorss more negatively than intended
- pace of questions to class too fast
- lab environment made learning difficult – noise levels
Feedback on stimulated recall: gives time for informed reflection which isn’t part of routine performance
Thought processes of audio feedback very different to written, the teachers need to learn the new skill. Almost like counselling – needing to be positive as solely-negative audio feedback seems to be emotionally/intellectually damaging.