60-Second SoTL – Episode 15

Featuring an open-access article from the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, this episode explores how feedback type, feedback orientation, and goal orientation inform feedback effectiveness for student learning:

Paulson Gjerde, Kathy, Deborah Skinner, and Margaret Padgett. (2022). “Importance of Goal and Feedback Orientation in Determining Feedback Effectiveness.” Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 22 (3): 55-75. https://doi.org/10.14434/josotl.v22i3.31866

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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 Feedback

  • Carless, David, and David Boud. 2018. “The Development of Student Feedback Literacy: Enabling Uptake of Feedback.” Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 43 (8): 1315–1325. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2018.1463354[Open Access]
  • Dixson, Dante D. and Frank C. Worrell. 2016. “Formative and Summative Assessment in the Classroom.” Theory into Practice 55 (2): 153-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/00405841.2016.1148989
  • 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]
  • Gjerde, Kathy Paulson, Margaret Y. Padgett, and Deborah Skinner. 2017. “The Impact of Process vs. Outcome Feedback on Student Performance and Perceptions.” Journal of Learning in Higher Education 13 (1): 73-82. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1139724.pdf [Open Access]
  • Gjerde, Kathy Paulson, Deborah Skinner, and Margaret Y. Padgett. 2018. “Feedback Effectiveness: Is It What You Say or How Much You Say It?” Higher Education Theory and Practice 18 (3): 26-43. https://doi.org/10.33423/jhetp.v18i3.556 [Open Access]
  • Joughin, Gordon, David Boud, Phillip Dawson, and Joanna Tai. 2021. “What Can Higher Education Learn from Feedback Seeking Behaviour in Organisations? Implications for Feedback Literacy.” Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 46 (1): 80–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2020.1733491
  • Leenknecht, Martijn, Priscilla Hompus, and Marieke van der Schaaf. 2019. “Feedback Seeking Behavior in Higher Education: The Association with Students’ Goal Orientation and Deep Learning Approach.” Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 44 (7): 1069-1078. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2019.1571161
  • Sutton, Paul. 2012. “Conceptualizing Feedback Literacy: Knowing, Being, and Acting.” Innovations in Education and Teaching International 49 (1): 31-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2012.647781
  • Winstone, Naomi E., Robert A. Nash, Michael Parker, and James Rowntree. 2017. “Supporting Learners’ Agentic Engagement with Feedback: A Systematic Review and Taxonomy of Recipience Processes.” Educational Psychologist 52 (1): 17-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/00461520.2016.1207538 [Open Access]
  • Winstone, Naomi E., Erica G. Hepper, and Robert A. Nash. 2019. “Individual Differences in Self-Reported Use of Assessment Feedback: The Mediating Role of Feedback Beliefs.” Educational Psychology 41 (7): 1- 19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2019.1693510

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