Audio feedback loops
When marking assessments, you put a lot of effort going in to marking identifying and correcting errors, explaining misunderstandings, praising good practice and providing suggestions for better approaches. So does providing assessment feedback feel like that something is getting lost in translation? In some extreme circumstances, maybe on you are spending time defending your feedback that you feel it was balanced and informed? The cause may lie in part with inherent limitations of the feedback method. The solution might be in an alternative approach: audio feedback. Jane Jones, Nick Purkis, Sandy Stockwell and Dr Ellie Woodacre from University of Winchester and University of Portsmouth faced the same issues and were looking for new ways to increase feedback’s effectiveness (see webinar https://bit.ly/2EP0Jwj ). This post is a summary of this webinar. After some early experiments in using audio-based feedback, they wanted to move from anecdotal experience to a...