Learning Technologies: Design & Applications

How to manage your feedback?

In their article, Gibbs & Simpson wrote extensively about “feedback”. They look at quantity as well as quality.

This is what I find:

• In Spanish, I give many quizzes, tests, essays and projects. It allows me to see where students are positioned in terms of their linguistic proficiency. Feedback is offered in the form of marks, one to one discussions, peer assessments and self-assessment (which gives me some feedback from the student’s point of view).
• In the film program, which is oriented towards the much more challenging to pin point art of “communication”, I also provide feedback, but it is a very different kind of feedback.
  • This type of retroaction is offered in the formative phase of the creative process much more than at the end.
  • One of the reasons for this is that students are more receptive and willing to change or alter their films when they are in the process of editing it.
  • However, when the end product is done, it becomes their “baby” and they are attached to every decision, every image, every cut. It becomes much more challenging to “critique” the product.
  • This is why I use “public” assessments. The judges assess the product without really worrying about how difficult it was to produce it!