Abstract:
Feedback is considered a powerful mechanism for improvement, when used formatively. The goal of educational feedback is to help learners identify where they are relative to goals and what they need to do next to achieve such goals. Challenges to its effectiveness lie in how quality insights are obscured by praise, peer relationships, and psychological safety needs. I will present some of my research into how students understand and experience feedback in NZ and PRC, leading to two research projects that arise from the probability that feedback contains error.