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Implementing peer feedback: potentials and
challengesDavid Carless
HKU, November 23, 2016http://davidcarless.edu.hku.hk/
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Overview
1. Feedback processes
2. Peer feedback rationales
3. Our recent research
4. Challenges & Implications
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Aim of talk
To discuss salient issues for effective implementation of peer feedback
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SITUATING FEEDBACK
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Productive assessment task design
Understanding quality in the discipline
Student engagement with feedback
Learning-oriented assessment framework (Carless, 2015a)
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Wider feedback issuesFeedback as assessment design issue
Feedback as pedagogic issue
Feedback as relational issue
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Dialogic feedback
Feedback needs to generate dialogue
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Key aim of feedback
To enhance student ability to self-monitor their work in progress
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Sustainable feedback Students generating & using feedback from peers, self (or teachers) as part of self-regulated learning
(Carless et al., 2011)
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INTRODUCING PEER FEEDBACK
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Defining peer feedback (PF) “A communication process through which learners enter into dialogues related to performance & standards” (Liu & Carless, 2006, p. 280)
peer review: (Nicol et al., 2014)peer response: (Liu & Hansen, 2002)
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A key pointLearners often gain more from composing PF than from receiving it
(Lundstrom & Baker, 2009; Nicol et al., 2014; Yu & Lee, 2015)
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RATIONALE FOR PEER FEEDBACK
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General rationale• Feedback processes should encourage
student dialogue• Feedback needs to be sustainable
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Specific Rationale Involve students in dialogue around the quality of work
Help students to reflect onown performance
Potentially timely & sustainable
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Technology-enabled PFLMS
PeerMark
Web 2.0
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FOUR KEY STUDIES
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1. To give is better than to receive
Students taught to give PF, improved writing more than students taught to use PF
Explanation: You review in your own ZPD but may not receive in your ZPD
(Lundstrom & Baker, 2009)
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2. Higher order thinking• Composing PF is cognitively engaging:- Applying criteria- Diagnosing problems- Suggesting solutions
(Nicol et al., 2014)
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3. Varying response to PFNot all students buy in to PF Gains from reading others’ texts
Passive involvement
(Yu & Lee, 2015)
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4. Feedback on PF• Receivers of PF gave feedback to
providers (Kim, 2009)• Enhanced motivation & performance
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OUR RECENT RESEARCH
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ContextYear 1 university EFL class
200 students, 5 teachers
Peer review of writing
Sustained observations, interviews
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Preparation No or minimal training
PF sheet / guiding questions
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Selected positive findings• Written peer feedback then oral dialogue
• Timeliness, immediacy, negotiation
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Selected negative findings• Partner not enthusiastic, perfunctory• Comments were vague & general
• Teacher should explain how to complete the feedback form
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Implications Importance of dialogue between peers
Role of teacher in PF on writing?
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Yueting Xu (Tracey) The University of Hong Kong
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ContextYear 1 university EFL class
57 students, 1 ‘excellent’ teacher
PF on oral presentations
Sustained observations, interviews
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Preparation • PF & wider aims of university study
• Discussed video of OP
• Introduced criteria, esp. content
• Modelled giving PF
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Positive findingsStudents more engaged
Enhanced audience awareness
Focused on content
Facilitates teacher feedback on PF
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Challenges• Reticence & uncertainty at outset
• Comments inaudible or difficult to understand
• Not easy to get students to be critical
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Implications • ‘Only true friends could be cruelly honest’ • Need for both cognitive scaffolding &
social-affective support
(Xu & Carless, 2016)
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PEER FEEDBACK CHALLENGES
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Discussion
In your view/experience, what are the major challenges in carrying out PF? And how might they be tackled?
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Main challenges• Students don’t take it seriously
• Poor quality PF
• Students prefer teacher feedback
• Lack of teacher assessment & feedback literacy
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Implications The University of Hong Kong
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Communication
Rationales
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Potential benefits
Processes
Tackling challenges
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The role of trust Feedback is a social and relational act: Importance of trust (Carless, 2013)
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Recommended PF practice• Sell rationale & benefits to students
• Communicate gains for ‘giver’
• Provide modeling & support
• Encourage collaborative climate
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ReferencesCarless, D. (2013). Trust and its role in facilitating dialogic feedback. In D. Boud & L. Molloy (Eds.), Feedback in Higher
and Professional Education: Understanding it and doing it well (pp. 90-103). London: Routledge.Carless, D. (2015a). Exploring learning-oriented assessment processes. Higher Education, 69(6), 963-976.Carless, D. (2015b). Excellence in University Assessment: learning from award-winning teachers. London: Routledge. Carless, D., Salter, D., Yang, M., & Lam, J. (2011). Developing sustainable feedback practices. Studies in Higher
Education, 36 (4) 395-407.Kim, M. (2009). The impact of an elaborated assessee’s role in peer assessment. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher
Education, 34(1), 105-114Liu, J., & Hansen, J. G. (2002). Peer response in second language writing classrooms. Michigan: University of
Michigan Press.Liu, N.F. & Carless, D. (2006) Peer feedback: the learning element of peer assessment, Teaching in Higher Education,
11 (3), 279-290.Lundstrom, K., & Baker, K. (2009). To give is better than to receive: The benefits of peer review to the reviewer’s
own writing. Journal of Second Language Writing, 18(1), 30-43.Nicol, D., Thomson, A., & Breslin, C. (2014). Rethinking feedback practices in higher education: a peer review
perspective. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 39(1), 102–122. Xu, Y. & Carless, D. (2016). ‘Only true friends could be cruelly honest’: cognitive scaffolding and social-affective
support in teacher feedback literacy, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2016.1226759.Yu, S., & Lee, I. (2015). Understanding EFL students’ participation in group peer feedback of L2 writing: A case
study from an activity theory perspective. Language Teaching Research, 19(5), 572-593.
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QUESTIONSCOMMENTS
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Less can be More
Information Action
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Closing feedback loops
It’s only feedback if students take some action
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Sustainable feedback defined“Active student participation in dialogic activities in which students generate and use feedback from peers, self or others as part of an ongoing process of developing capacities as autonomous self-regulating learners” (Carless, 2013b)
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Merry, Price, Carless, & Taras (2013)
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