File: Learners and Learning
Active Feedback Toolkit
Ania’s
Recommendation
Implementing the inner feedback approach doesn't require any major changes to your course if you already incorporate some active learning and feedback activities. This toolkit is a great guide on how to take small steps towards a big impact on student learning.
While there is consensus in education that students should take a more active role in feedback processes, this is nearly always framed in terms of their making better use of lecturer or peer comments. This framing ignores that students already exercise agency and are generating inner feedback all the time, even when there are no comments from, or dialogue with others.
This Guide presents an alternative conception of feedback and a new methodology that lecturers
can use to:
- Improve students’ learning by building on their natural inner feedback capability.
- Develop students’ ability to self-regulate their learning.
- Scale up feedback for all students without any increase in lecturer commenting.
- Extend the feedback process to specifically develop students’ critical and creative thinking.
- Make learning more enjoyable by varying the information students use to generate feedback.
- Position feedback as a developmental and emotionally positive learning process.
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