An Anatomy of Feedback - A phenomenographic investigation into undergraduate students' experiences of feedback
An Anatomy of Feedback - A phenomenographic investigation into undergraduate students' experiences of feedback
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反馈剖析——对本科生反馈体验的现象学调查
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2012
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A. McLean
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A. McLean
Feedback is considered to be a fundamental part of the learning process and is a critical link that connects students’ and teachers’ activities. However, definitions of feedback in the higher education literature are problematic. For example, views of feedback seem to be mechanistic in nature and isolated from the learning context; there is minimal contribution of students’ perspectives in these views; and, there is an assumption on the part of researchers of a common understanding as to what feedback actually is. In addition, the ways in which students respond to feedback are not well understood. Therefore, an objective of this research was to investigate students’ experiences or conceptions of feedback, in order to determine the underlying meaning that feedback has for students. A further objective was to investigate students’ responses or ‘approaches’ to feedback. Data were collected from 28 undergraduate physiotherapy students via individual, semi-structured interviews and then analysed using a phenomenographic approach in order to determine the ‘what’ or referential aspects, and the ‘how’ or structural aspects, of students’ conceptions of feedback. The focus was on the variation across the data, as well as on the relationships between the different experiences in the data. The ways in which students responded to or approached feedback were also analysed with regard to these relationships. One main finding of this study was the identification of a superordinate notion across the data of feedback as ‘information’. However, results indicated An Anatomy of Feedback | Abstract