Table 3 Illustrative quotes and associated evaluative benefits from open feedback
From: An online discussion between students and teachers: a way forward for meaningful teacher feedback?
Theme | Narrative example | Illustrative Quotes |
|---|---|---|
Evaluative benefits from open feedback | Learning from the feedback given to colleagues | CTF2: Seeing how other people things do is so critical to everyone’s development. CTF1: [If] one particular teacher was getting lots and lots of positive feedback that would make me more interested in what was different. |
Opportunity to respond to feedback and correct misunderstanding | CTF2: If something is been misunderstood you have the opportunity to reply and correct miscommunication in a respectful way taking on-board the concerns, saying what you think may give more colour or context to it or what should be done differently. | |
Ability to get more information from students | CTF1: It actually makes it a two-way process then rather than just a one-way process of getting a paper feedback form. bM2: I think the idea of seeing what someone else has said – you might not necessarily think of something, when someone else has put it you can agree with it allows everyone to get a better input | |
Evaluation of group consensus – prioritisation of key issues | bM1: The up-vote [is] useful it shows everyone is thinking about what you are thinking. Also makes it easier for changes to be made for something like paper feedback you can’t really put it all together and say that each and every person is saying the same thing. But with this you can see that there is some sort of agreement and it’s a lot easier and quicker which is of benefit. SQ14: Vote up is useful for supporting feedback | |
Student insight into peer & teacher perspectives | aM2: it’s quite useful because you see other peoples’ views, it opens your views as well, so you see things from different perspectives. bF1: But sometimes seeing what everyone else has written makes you realise that you probably have missed something or that you have not thought about it. CTF2: Students would see each other’s feedback which was a new window to explore for them. They don’t often get that opportunity. We could actually get consensus on certain things | |
Responsibility to create meaningful feedback | CTF2: the quality of the free text answers they gave were sometimes really good … perhaps influenced by the fact that other people might be looking at them |