{"id":1473,"date":"2013-07-08T05:31:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T05:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2013-07-08T05:31:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T05:31:03","slug":"emotional-reactions-to-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1473","title":{"rendered":"Emotional reactions to feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will probably be my final post relating to the <a href=\"http:\/\/aheconference.com\/\">Assessment in Higher Education Conference<\/a> and it relates to an excellent presentation I went to entitled &#8216;Feedback without Tears: students&#8217; emotional responses&#8217;. The presentation was given by Mike McCormack from Liverpool John Moores University and two of his students and, perhaps as you would expect from a teacher of drama and two drama students, it was excellent.<\/p>\n<p>The work described was an HEA funded project in which students interviewed their fellows about positive and negative emotional responses to feedback. Most students reported having had positive and a negative emotional responses to feedback received, and some of the negative reactions were long-lasting and unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the tentative conclusions and recommentations are that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wherever possible, feedback should be given in a verbal discussion;<\/li>\n<li>lecturers should &#8216;have the time&#8217; to discuss\u00a0feedback with students\u00a0(and make sure this is clear to their students);<\/li>\n<li>lecturers should give suggestions for improvement rather than focusing on what is wrong;<\/li>\n<li>we should avoid confusing disparity between marks and feedback;<\/li>\n<li>we should ensure that students understand that we can&#8217;t reward effort alone;<\/li>\n<li>we should be aware of students&#8217; perceptions of power imbalance and of differing understandings of specialist discourse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the suggestions made was that drama is an emotionally charged subject, so perhaps students in a different subject area &#8211; like physics &#8211; would be less emotional. That may be true, generally, but on the highly scientific basis of a sample of one physicist (me!) I don&#8217;t think it is. Physics students may react less emotionally to drama students, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that they are not sometimes hurt by feedback received. Now, whether that is necessarily a bad thing is another matter all together &#8211; sadly, dealing with negative feedback is something we all (as actors or physicists or teachers) need to be able to do in &#8216;real life&#8217;. It was an extremely interesting and thought-provoking presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will probably be my final post relating to the Assessment in Higher Education Conference and it relates to an excellent presentation I went to entitled &#8216;Feedback without Tears: students&#8217; emotional responses&#8217;. 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