Challenges to Providing Effective Feedback

by Jessie L. Moore

October 20, 2022

60-Second SoTL – Episode 8

This week’s episode features a recent article from the open-access journal, Teaching & Learning Inquiry, and explores instructors’ perspectives on challenges to providing effective feedback:

Paris, Brit M. 2022. “Instructors’ Perspectives of Challenges and Barriers to Providing Effective Feedback.” Teaching and Learning Inquiry 10. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.10.3

View a transcript of this episode.

The episode was hosted by Jessie L. Moore, Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Professor of Professional Writing & Rhetoric. 60-Second SoTL is produced by the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University.

Read More about Effective Feedback Processes

  • Agius, Natalie M., and Ann Wilkinson. 2014. “Students’ and Teachers’ Views of Written Feedback at Undergraduate Level: A Literature Review.” Nurse Education Today 34 (4): 552–559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2013.07.005
  • Boud, David, and Elizabeth Molloy. 2013. “Rethinking Models of Feedback for Learning: The Challenge of Design.” Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 38 (6): 698–712. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2012.691462
  • Carless, David, and David Boud. 2018. “The Development of Student Feedback Literacy: Enabling Uptake of Feedback.” Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 2938 (May): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2018.1463354 [Open Access]
  • Carless, David, and Naomi Winstone. 2020. “Teacher Feedback Literacy and Its Interplay with Student Feedback Literacy Feedback Literacy.” Teaching in Higher Education, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2020.1782372
  • Dawson, Phillip, Michael Henderson, Paige Mahoney, Michael Phillips, Tracii Ryan, David Boud, and Elizabeth Molloy. 2019. “What Makes for Effective Feedback: Staff and Student Perspectives.” Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 44 (1): 25–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2018.1467877 [Open Access]
  • Eli Review. n.d. “Feedback and Improvement: Becoming a Better Writer by Helping Other Writers.” https://elireview.com/content/students/feedback [Open Access]
  • Eli Review. n.d. “The Pedagogy: Feedback and Revision.” https://elireview.com/learn/pedagogy/ [Open Access]
  • Henderson, Michael, Tracii Ryan, and Michael Phillips. 2019. “The Challenges of Feedback in Higher Education.” Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 44 (8): 1237–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2019.1599815
  • Henderson, Michael, Tracii Ryan, David Boud, Phillip Dawson, Michael Phillips, Elizabeth Molloy, and Paige Mahoney. 2019a. “The Usefulness of Feedback.” Active Learning in Higher Education, September, 146978741987239. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469787419872393 [Open Access]
  • Henderson, Michael, Michael Phillips, Tracii Ryan, David Boud, Elizabeth Molloy, and Paige Mahoney. 2019b. “Conditions That Enable Effective Feedback.” Higher Education Research and Development 38 (7): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2019.1657807 [Open Access]
  • To, Jessica. 2021. “Using Learner-Centred Feedback Design to Promote Students’ Engagement with Feedback.” Higher Education Research and Development, February, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2021.1882403
  • Winstone, Naomi E., and David Carless. 2019. Designing Effective Feedback Processes in Higher Education. Abingdon: Routledge.

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