Sunday, July 25, 2010

Dialogic Feedback - Collective Feedback

The following examples describe feedback practices in giving collective feedback verbally on written assignment and past exam papers regarding students’ commonly made mistakes.

Example 1:

Description: Provide collective feedback verbally on written assignment regarding students’ commonly made mistakes

What teacher does (and when) –
Gives feedback after each tutorial submission to the whole class at the beginning of the lecture on common errors;
Provides instructions for postgraduate students on how to mark student work on the tutorial problems; and
Asks the postgraduate students to summarize their observations and things that are important to tell the students

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Example 2:

Description: Provide collective feedback verbally based on the performance of past exam papers in the lecture

What teacher does (and when) –
Spends one hour in the end of semester revision period to tell the students the commonly errors in the past exam papers

Teacher’s comments
The teacher thought students very often continue to make the similar mistakes even having discussed about the past exam papers in the lesson

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