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Accelerating Feedback: Innovative Software for Enhanced Academic Experiences

The CAFEx2 project aims to improve academic feedback processes through software, addressing efficiency and quality concerns. Explore findings from student surveys, related software options, and future work plans to enhance feedback systems. Visit the project page for more details.

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Accelerating Feedback: Innovative Software for Enhanced Academic Experiences

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  1. The Constructive Comments, Assisted Assessment, Faster Feedback and Enhanced Experiences (CAFEx2) project

  2. Acknowledgements • HEA-ICS • Ge Qin • Diane Bush • Neil Newbold • Surrey e-Learning team / CEAD

  3. Motivation • National Student Survey (NSS) provides one motive: • Some measure of how well HE institutions satisfy the expectations of their student cohort. • Some may use it as a proxy for value-for-money. • Largely intended for consideration by final year students who, it is hoped, can comment objectively and accurately on a wide range of experiences throughout their years at the University. • Prospective students use in decision-making; indirectly in league tables. • In 2008, 4 key areas for improvement, 3 of which were in Assessment and Feedback. • Potential efficiency gains; time an increasingly finite resource • THES noted “cryptic feedback”….. • Individual final year projects marked across the Department

  4. Talk Outline • About Feedback • Related Research • Building feedback software • “Demonstration” • Conclusions and Future work

  5. About Feedback • NSS and Literature • Feedback on my work has been prompt. • I have received detailed comments on my work. • Feedback on my work has helped me clarify things I did not understand.

  6. About Feedback • Surveys: • In two surveys of students (2008, 2009), key findings were largely in keeping with the key points from the literature: • knowing when feedback should be returned, and when it actually is, is generally important; • students prefer form-based written feedback on work, and are increasingly demanding greater detail; • students are increasingly comparing marks with peers, and standardization issues may exist in variations in comments for same marks, and vice versa; • a majority would prefer standard initial comments with detailed individual feedback. • Additionally, these students prefer written comments.

  7. About Feedback • Related Software: • (Presentation about, and demonstration of) Aston e-CAF • http://ecaf.aston.ac.uk/ • Software not available? • Electronic Feedback 9 • http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/cis/software/feedback.asp • Excel • TurnitinGradeMark • http://turnitin.com/static/grademark.html • Support for comment reuse? • HEA-ICS comment bank • Easily searched? • “Constructive”?

  8. Building Feedback Software • Develop a software demonstrator for speeding the production good quality feedback. • To improve speed of feedback • To ensure a “minimal” feedback standard • To ensure positively formulated feedback • To enable production of standardized feedback • To enable flexibility in the marking scheme

  9. Relevant Work • Can students “read” feedback?

  10. Relevant Work • Can students “read” the feedback?

  11. Relevant Work

  12. Relevant Work • Is feedback constructive? • Sentiment analysis has been variously used for determining strengths of opinions on a variety of subjects, including those of customers towards companies and for reviews of products

  13. Relevant Work • Can we search quickly - reusability? • Visual Search to refine for access to commonly used elements • Single-selection issue to overcome

  14. Building Feedback Software • Software features • Server-based • Readability Analysis • Grammar Checking • Sentiment Analysis • Report Generation • Visual Search - but updating of comment bank and multiple-selection efforts under review

  15. “Demonstration”

  16. “Demonstration”

  17. “Demonstration”

  18. “Demonstration”

  19. “Demonstration”

  20. “Demonstration”

  21. “Demonstration”

  22. Conclusions and Future Work • Ambitious….. • Some way yet from being fully configurable or supported “tool”; further development needed, e.g. for effective visual search integration, for supporting multiple units of assessment, variant forms of marking criteria, etc. • A good demonstration of how to account for certain considerations of feedback in an integrated software application. • Well received to date. • Project web presence at: http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/personal/st/L.Gillam/Feedback/ Further publication in preparation.

  23. Questions?Comments? Criticisms?(Remember: be constructive…..!) http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/personal/st/L.Gillam/Feedback/

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