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Summary
Summary
Learners complain that they do not get enough feedback, and educators resent that although they put considerable time into generating feedback, students take little notice of it. Both parties agree that it is very important.
Feedback in Higher and Professional Education explores what needs to be done to make feedback more effective. It examines the problem of feedback and suggests that there is a lack of clarity and shared meaning about what it is and what constitutes doing it well. It argues that new ways of thinking about feedback are needed.
There has been considerable development in research on feedback in recent years, but surprisingly little awareness of what needs to be done to improve it and good ideas are not translated into action. The book provides a multi-disciplinary and international account of the role of feedback in higher and professional education. It challenges three conventional assumptions about feedback in learning:
That feedback constitutes one-way flow of information from a knowledgeable person to a less knowledgeable person. That the job of feedback is complete with the imparting of performance-related information. That a generic model of best-practice feedback can be applied to all learners and all learning situationsIt seeking a new approach to feedback, it proposes that it is necessary to recognise that learners need to be much more actively involved in seeking, generating and using feedback. Rather than it being something they are subjected to, it must be an activity that they drive.
Author Notes
David Boud is Professor of Adult Education in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Elizabeth Molloy is an Associate Professor in the Health Professions Education and Educational Research Unit in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Table of Contents
1 The Problem with FeedbackDavid Boud and Elizabeth Molloy |
2 Changing Conceptions of FeedbackDavid Boud and Elizabeth Molloy |
3 Resituating Feedback from the Reactive to the ProactiveDavid Nicol |
4 The Impact of Emotions in FeedbackElizabeth Molloy and Francesc Borrell Carrio and Ron Epstein |
5 Socio-cultural Considerations in FeedbackAndrea Paul and Kara Gilbert and Louisa Remedios |
6 Trust and Sustainable Feedback for the Development of Student Learning DispositionsDavid Carless |
7 Written Feedback: What is it good for and how can we do it well?Brian Jolly and David Boud |
8 Feedback in the Digital EnvironmentBrett Williams and Ted Brown and Robyn Benson |
9 Feedback on Skills in SimulationDebra Nestel and Roger Kneebone and Fernando Bello |
10 Implementing Multisource FeedbackJocelyn Lockyer and Joan Sargeant |
11 The Role of Peers in Feedback ProcessesRichard Ladyshewsky |
12 Utilising the Voice of Others: The example of consumer-delivered feedbackLisa McKenna and Fiona Kent |
13 Decision-making for FeedbackDavid Boud and Elizabeth Molloy |