Y1 Feedback: Enhancing Feedback in First Year Using Digital Technologies
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The document discusses the challenges and opportunities of enhancing feedback for first-year students in Irish higher education using digital technologies. It highlights survey findings indicating a large percentage of students receive inadequate feedback and outlines effective feedback characteristics, including the importance of dialogic processes and technology integration. The authors emphasize the necessity for program team buy-in to fully realize these feedback approaches and pose critical questions regarding their implementation in practice.
Y1 Feedback: Enhancing Feedback in First Year Using Digital Technologies
- 1. Y1 Feedback: Enhancing Feedback in First Year Using Digital Technologies Lisa O’Regan, Morag Munro, Mark Brown, Nuala Harding & Moira Maguire 14-17 June 2016, Budapest @y1feedback
- 2. Background • Feedback in First Year • Features of Effective Feedback for First Year • Technology-Enabled Feedback Approaches National Picture The Irish Survey of Student Engagement (ISSE) 2014, found that nationally, 23.3% of first year undergraduate students never, and 44.9% only sometimes, received timely written or oral feedback from teachers on academic performance. Y1Feedback (2016). Feedback in First Year: A Landscape Snapshot Across Four Irish Higher Education Institutions. Available from http://y1feedback.ie/
- 3. Feedback should: 1. Take place in formal and informal learning settings within and beyond assessment; 2. Feed forward to future work; and 3. Be a dialogic process that ultimately supports learners to become self- regulating. Synthesis of Literature Y1Feedback (2016). TechnologyEnabled Feedback in First Year: A Synthesis of the Literature. Available from: http://y1feedback.ie/
- 4. Key Reflections So Far • Truly dialogic feedback approaches can be difficult to achieve in practice • Potential of technology – can be difficult to realise (case studies) • Need to progress beyond innovation champions towards programme team buy-in Unresolved question… How can we actualise/embed these features in first year practice at programme team level?