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What Makes Good Feedback Good?
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O'Donovan, Berry M.; den Outer, Birgit; Price, Margaret; Lloyd, Andy – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
HE institutions persistently seek to increase student engagement and satisfaction with assessment feedback, but with limited success. This study identifies the attributes of good feedback from the perspective of recipients. In a distinctive participatory research design, student participants were invited to bring along actual examples of feedback…
Descriptors: Social Media, College Students, Learner Engagement, Student Satisfaction
A Scholarly Approach to Solving the Feedback Dilemma in Practice
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O'Donovan, Berry; Rust, Chris; Price, Margaret – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
It is clear from the literature that feedback is potentially the most powerful and potent part of the assessment cycle when it comes to improving further student learning. However, for some time, there has been a growing amount of research evidence that much feedback practice does not fulfil this potential to influence future student learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, Student Satisfaction
Let's Stop the Pretence of Consistent Marking: Exploring the Multiple Limitations of Assessment Criteria
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Bloxham, Sue; den-Outer, Birgit; Hudson, Jane; Price, Margaret – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Unreliability in marking is well documented, yet we lack studies that have investigated assessors' detailed use of assessment criteria. This project used a form of Kelly's repertory grid method to examine the characteristics that 24 experienced UK assessors notice in distinguishing between students' performance in four contrasting subject…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grading
External Peer Review of Assessment: An Effective Approach to Verifying Standards?
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Bloxham, Sue; Hudson, Jane; den Outer, Birgit; Price, Margaret – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
There is growing international concern to regulate and assure standards in higher education. External peer review of assessment, often called external examining, is a well-established approach to assuring standards. Australian higher education is one of several systems without a history of external examining for undergraduate programmes that is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation, Academic Standards
Feedback: All that Effort, but What Is the Effect?
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Price, Margaret; Handley, Karen; Millar, Jill; O'Donovan, Berry – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2010
Constraints in resourcing and student dissatisfaction with assessment feedback mean that the effectiveness of our feedback practices has never been so important. Drawing on findings from a three-year study focused on student engagement with feedback, this paper reveals the limited extent to which effectiveness can be accurately measured and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Research
Feedback: Focusing Attention on Engagement
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Price, Margaret; Handley, Karen; Millar, Jill – Studies in Higher Education, 2011
Within many higher education systems there is a search for means to increase levels of student satisfaction with assessment feedback. This article suggests that the search is under way in the wrong place by concentrating on feedback as a product rather than looking more widely to feedback as a long-term dialogic process in which all parties are…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, College Faculty, Learner Engagement
Learning to Mark: Exemplars, Dialogue and Participation in Assessment Communities
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Handley, Karen; den Outer, Birgit; Price, Margaret – Higher Education Research and Development, 2013
The problems of shifting from norm-referenced assessment to criterion-referenced assessment have been identified by several scholars in recent years. These important critiques touch on a number of areas, but neglect a key question about how assessors learn to accomplish what Shay calls a "socially situated interpretive act". Research…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Business Education Teachers