This is an ESCalate Pedagogy and Practice grant awarded in June 2010 to Jan McArthur of the University of Edinburgh. In order to promote good feedback dialogue between students and lecturers should be encouraged. With modern pressures affecting Higher Education this can be difficult to achieve. By introducing feedback devices at multiple points throughout the 'Feedback Loop' students can be encouraged to engage in a two-way dialogue which they will eventually build into their learning practices
Grant type: Developing Pedagogy and Practice 2009
Round: Pedagogy and Practice June 2010
Amount awarded £5 000.00
Leader(s): Dr Jan McArthur
Organisation: University of Edinburgh
Contact Email: jan.mcarthur@ed.ac.uk
Contact phone: 0131 651 6674
Partners: Dr Mark Huxham
School of Life Sciences Edinburgh Napier University
Mrs Jenny Hounsell
Centre for Teaching Learning and Assessment University of Edinburgh
Start Date: 1 September 2010
End Date: 29 April 2011
Interim report received: 2 March 2011
This project is premised on a belief in the importance of understanding feedback as a dialogue between students and teachers. In addition it considers the importance of feedback as an ongoing and multi-faceted part of students’ engagement with a course rather than a singular process that occurs at only one point. On this basis the project looks in-depth at two different moments in the learning cycle where feedback can be encouraged in a more dialogical way. Insights into these feedback devices at these moments can then be used to inform the development of other forms of dialogue through the learning cycle.
