Improving Students' Feedback Literacy

In this article, you will learn what feedback literacy is and why students need it in order to learn from feedback. You will also see how common activities like peer feedback and use of exemplars can promote the development of feedback literacy.

Students can generate a kind of inner feedback even when not in conversation with instructors or peers. David Nicol won a Reimagine Education Award for his work on inner feedback and this toolkit presents the rationale and research behind this approach, along with 10 ways to build inner feedback into common teaching activities.

This book contains a wealth of recent research on feedback literacy as well as examples of evidence-based feedback practices across different contexts, such as feedback dialogues, peer feedback, and internal feedback. You will also learn how to approach assessment design for feedback literacy.

This article is for you if you’re working on integrating feedback literacy into the curriculum. The authors analyze a few national qualification frameworks for graduate outcomes related to feedback literacy and suggest how to embed dimensions of feedback literacy into disciplinary curricula.

What skills do teachers need to foster student feedback literacy? The article describes a framework for teacher feedback literacy with competencies related to program development, course design and implementation, and feedback on individual assignments, with nearly 60 examples of concrete actions.