{"id":421,"date":"2011-04-18T16:59:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T16:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=421"},"modified":"2011-04-27T16:38:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:38:33","slug":"feedback-after-a-correct-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Feedback after a correct answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/s154-practce-q3-v41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-445\" title=\"s154-practce-q3-v4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/s154-practce-q3-v41.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/s154-practce-q3-v41.png 601w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/s154-practce-q3-v41-300x82.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OpenMark is set up to give students increasing feedback after each incorrect attempt at a question. After they have had [usually] three attempts they are given a &#8216;full answer&#8217;. The system is set up so that a student who gets the question right receives the same &#8216;full answer&#8217;. The screenshot\u00a0above shows this feedback for a simple question.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/s154-practce-q3-v4.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our approach raises a number of questions:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1. Is it more useful to give a worked solution or to give an explanation of how the question should be answered (the example in the screenshot was deliberately chosen because it inclues elements of both of these things)?<\/p>\n<p>2. How\u00a0necessary is it to give the full solution at all when a student has answered the question correctly? Doing so means that good students at least get something (see previous post), it also enables all students to check that their method is correct i.e. that they have not arrived at the correct answer by an incorrect method or by chance. However, I have evidence (from videos of students in usability labs) that once students have been told that their\u00a0response is correct, they don&#8217;t bother to read the given answer. That seems\u00a0entirely reasonable, but it means that perhaps we are fooling ourselves if we think that a student will learn from the given answer if their own methodology was flawed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenMark is set up to give students increasing feedback after each incorrect attempt at a question. After they have had [usually] three attempts they are given a &#8216;full answer&#8217;. The system is set up so that a student who gets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=421\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,115,5,116],"tags":[344,345],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-assessment","category-excellent-students","category-feedback","category-feedback-after-correct-answer","tag-e-assessment","tag-feedback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}