Types of feedback and faculty examination of importance and usage

Year 2023, Issue: 3 - September 2023, 89 - 96, 03.10.2023

Michael Shaughnessy Matthew Vetterly Mark Viner

Abstract

Feedback is an important part of the educational, teaching and learning process. Currently, in Learning Management Systems, instructors are endeavoring to engage, support, correct students, and promote higher-order thinking in their online classes. Feedback either via grades or comments regarding assignments, is one way to foster student learning. The problem is to ascertain what type or types of feedback are more useful and efficacious in this regard. Many students are eager to receive numerical feedback, some want writing feedback and still others want some validation as to their efforts. Ascertaining what type of feedback is most often used and what type of feedback is most important is imperative. This research will employ a questionnaire model using Qualtrics. Participants were college/university faculty. Qualtrics internal mechanisms were used to analyze the data. The data were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively and discussed. The results of this very preliminary exploratory study were reviewed. In this brief study, the authors examined the literature regarding feedback and how feedback is defined. The authors requested that faculty provide information on how substantial these various forms of feedback are and how often they utilize each. The results were reviewed and analyzed and some implications derived. Some recommendations for future study were examined and explored.

Keywords

feedback, learning motivation, student participation

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