{"id":34,"date":"2010-08-04T19:31:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T19:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=34"},"modified":"2010-08-06T19:05:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T19:05:42","slug":"more-on-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"More on feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris&#8217;s interesting post <a href=\"http:\/\/mikris.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/03\/feedback-on-students-assignments\/\">&#8216;Feedback on students&#8217; assignments&#8217; <\/a>on <a href=\"http:\/\/mikris.wordpress.com\/\">Mikris&#8217;s Blog <\/a>has made me think some more.<\/p>\n<p>Is this &#8216;what do we mean by feedback&#8217; stuff\u00a0\u00a0more than semantics? <!--more-->I think that it is, but I also think that the situation is exacerbated by the fact that neither we nor our students really know what we mean by the word &#8216;feedback&#8217;. I&#8217;m reminded\u00a0of a discussion, a few years ago,\u00a0\u00a0at a meeting with colleagues from Sheffield Hallam University, when we were working together on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/fast\/\">FAST<\/a> (Formative Assessment in Science Teaching)\u00a0Project.<\/p>\n<p>I had just discovered that Open University students occasionally said that &#8216;they have not received any feedback&#8217; on interactive computer-marked assignments, when they had been told whether each question was correctly answered or not and given hints on what they might do to improve their incorrect answers. The\u00a0significant point is that they had not been told their overall mark for the assignment or the module.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at Sheffield Hallam, they had realised that students did not consider &#8216;corridor conversations&#8217; with their lecturers as feedback, even when they were discussing\u00a0the student&#8217;s performance on an assignment.\u00a0Teaching yes, feedback no.<\/p>\n<p>Assessment (f)or learning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris&#8217;s interesting post &#8216;Feedback on students&#8217; assignments&#8217; on Mikris&#8217;s Blog has made me think some more. Is this &#8216;what do we mean by feedback&#8217; stuff\u00a0\u00a0more than semantics?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,345],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feedback","tag-fast","tag-feedback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}