A scoping exercise investigating the efficacy and efficiency of audio feedback

In the academic year 2010/11 the HEA funded Learning and Teaching Enhancement projects in Wales with funding of up to two thousand five hundred pounds per project. The projects covered a range of themes including assessment employability and education for sustainable development.

There has been a recent impetus to improve feedback to students giving rise to an interest in the potential wider use of audio feedback. However a paucity of literature revealed a need to investigate both the efficacy and efficiency of audio feedback in relation to learning styles.

This paper reports on a project at the University of Cardiff that undertook a scoping exercise to investigate the correlation between student learning and audio feedback.