Computer+Based+Feedback

// Caroline Timmers // // Thursday, 30 August, Symposium Klinkenberg, Draaijer and Timmers // // Verslag door: Caspar Groeneveld // Caroline Timmer looked into effectiveness of forms of feedback in a computer based formative setting. Types of feedback in order of ascending effectiveness: So, feedback to be worthy of the name should contain information on why, how or what the answer should be. Feedback in a formative learning environment always implies that the student will get back to studying and will be tested (formatively) again. So feedback implies a feedback cycle. I find it questionable whether the term ‘feedback’ is at all applicable for the comments we provide for students at summative tests, since they are not needed and not used for a next learning activity, and, as we learned, often not even collected.
 * Feedback in Computer Based Formative Assessment **
 * Korte Samenvatting **
 * Knowledge of results (KR): just correct or incorrect
 * Knowledge of correct response: what should the correct answer be
 * Elaborated feedback: why the answer should be something
 * Inzichten **

One finding that I found amazing is that there is a small tendency among weaker students to check feedback on items they answered correctly rather than the items they didn’t know.