EmpowerED S3W9 - Feedback as data: developing adaptive feedbackprocedures through coding

Since integrating coding skills across research methods teaching within our School, much has been made
about the benefits to student development (McAleer et al, 2022, https://osf.io/hq68s_v1). In contrast, the
benefits to staff have been less documented. Alongside development of analytical skills, one area in which
this integration can benefit staff is in enhancing our approach to assessment and feedback. Over the past
decade, we have developed procedures to help build flexible and adaptive feedback for students, using
documents designed round the feedback, not the other way round, resulting in feedback that is more
informative and usable by students.

In addition, we have introduced techniques to rapidly extract and summarise feedback comments given by
staff, helping staff generate informative class-level feedback as well as shape future iterations of their
modules based on common issues and misunderstandings across submissions. Key to this approach is seeing
feedback as data, and through freely available packages in R, and working with Microsoft Office, we will
showcase the techniques we use. Feedback is a crucial part of skill development and with these approaches
and stance we hope to show that the process can be both highly efficient and effective for both students and
staff.

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Helena Paterson:   / helena-paterson-b61475141  

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