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Active engagement with assessment and feedback can improve group-work outcomes and boost student confidence

Scott, Graham W.

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Abstract

This study involves evaluation of a novel iterative group-based learning task developed to enable students to actively engage with assessment and feedback in order to improve the quality of their written work. The students were all in the final semester of their final year of study and enrolled on either BSc Zoology or BSc Marine and Freshwater Biology at a mainstream UK university, but the findings of this research can be generalised to a wider student body. The main findings are that in a group work context, individual students can use provided assessment criteria to accurately assess the work produced by their group and that their ability to produce and recognise work of a higher quality improves as a result of a social dialogue around self/peer assessment and self/tutor generated feedback. The study also reveals that producing poorer work over-assess and those achieving the highest marks under-assess. Over-assessing students focus to a greater extent upon the superficial deficiencies in their work, whereas under assessing students are more likely to focus on more significant issues. High-achieving under-assessing students lack confidence in their own abilities, but believe feedback provides a confidence boost.

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Scott, G. W. (2017). Active engagement with assessment and feedback can improve group-work outcomes and boost student confidence. Higher Education Pedagogies, 2(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/23752696.2017.1307692

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 14, 2017
Online Publication Date Apr 12, 2017
Publication Date Apr 12, 2017
Deposit Date May 8, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Higher education pedagogies
Print ISSN 2375-2696
Electronic ISSN 2375-2696
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2
Issue 1
Pages 1-13
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/23752696.2017.1307692
Keywords Group work; Feedback; Reflection; Self-assessment; Peer-assessment
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/451054
Publisher URL http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23752696.2017.1307692
Additional Information This is a copy of an open access article published in Higher education pedagogies, 2017, v.2 issue 1.

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© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.






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