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Beyond feedback: developing student capability in complex appraisal
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Giving students detailed feedback about the strengths and weaknesses of their work, with suggestions for improvement, is becoming common practice in higher education. However, for many students, feedback seems to have little or no impact, despite the considerable time and effort put into its production. With a view to increasing its effectiveness, extensive theoretical and empirical research has been carried out into its structure, timing and other parameters. For students to be able to apply feedback, they need to understand the meaning of the feedback statements. They also need to identify, with near certainty, the particular aspects of their work that need attention. For these to occur, students must possess critical background knowledge. This article sets out the nature of that knowledge and how students can acquire it. They must appropriate for themselves three fundamental concepts – task compliance, quality and criteria – and also develop a cache of relevant tacit knowledge.
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“This points to an improvement in students ' evaluative expertise over time (Sadler 2010) as they related their evaluations to the evaluations of others; they reflected whether their judgements were appropriate or not, looking for ways to improve future feedback content and wondering what they had missed in making their judgements that others had noticed (Boud et al. 2013).”
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“Here, he proposed that student capability in ' complex appraisal ' was necessary for learning from feedback and that educators needed to do more to articulate the reasons for the information provided (i.e. quality notions) rather than providing information.”
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“Sadler also suggested that an additional method for developing this capability was peer review or assessment, which was also taken up by Gielen et al. (2011).”
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“This will help them develop appropriate evaluative judgement themselves in relation to criteria or standards and make more sense of and take greater control of their own learning (Boud and Soler 2016; Sadler 2010).”
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“We identified these pedagogies as developing evaluative judgement through the consideration of previous conceptual work which touched on the notion that students need a sense of quality to successfully undertake study and conduct their future lives as graduates (e.g. Sadler 2010; Boud and Falchikov 2007).”
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“Sadler suggests that for information to become feedback, it must enable the learner to take action to remedy the gap between actual and desired performance [37].”
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- Authors
- Sadler, D. R.
- Affiliations
- Griffith University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Sadler, D. Royce
- ORCID
- Sadler, D. Royce
- Venue
- Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2010-08
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 535-550
- ISSN
- 0260-2938 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-297X
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Student Assessment and Feedback
- Social Sciences › Education › Evaluation of Teaching Practices
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- Keywords
- feedback effectiveness, student ability, tacit knowledge, task compliance, quality standards, student self-assessment, higher education assessment
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