Meet Your Marker: Encouraging feedback use through conversations
[email protected] University of Sydney
Why do we give feedback?
Why does this happen?
Didactic teaching doesn’t work
Logistics
• No lectures / tutorials for one week.
• Tutors paid for extra hour.
• Preparation • Actions following • Future approaches • Learning
How did students prepare?
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Did nothing
Read, thought about feedback and created questions
Read and thought about feedback
Read the feedback
Future approaches to feedback?
• Paying closer attention to future feedback.
• Initiating conversations.
• “essay structure”
• “How to argue, rebutt and then counter-‐argue”
“it isn’t scary to receive feedback”
It’s not impossible!