Meet  Your  Marker:  Encouraging  feedback    use  through  conversations  

Melanie.nguyen@sydney.edu.au  University  of  Sydney  

What  is  feedback?  

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?  

0   2   4   6   8   10   12   14   16  

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!