formative feedback

A Thematic Analysis of Factors Influencing Student’s Peer-Feedback Orientation

Providing and receiving feedback requires a certain openness in individuals which is referred to as feedback orientation. Although this openness is also required in peer-feedback processes personal factors that influence student’s openness (i.e. …

Identifying Critical Features for Formative Essay Feedback with Artificial Neural Networks and Backward Elimination

For predicting and improving the quality of essays, text analytic metrics (surface, syntactic, morphological and semantic features) can be used to provide formative feedback to the students. In this study, the intent was to find a small number of …

Language Technologies to Support Formative Feedback

Formative feedback enables comparison to be made between a learner’s current understanding and a desired learning goal. Obtaining this information is a time consuming task that most tutors cannot afford. We therefore wished to develop a support …