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Student perceptions of screencast feedback on mathematics assessment
journal contribution
posted on 2016-01-26, 14:55 authored by Mike Robinson, Birgit Loch, Tony CroftAlthough feedback is a very important component of assessment in higher education, there is substantial evidence that students view traditional methods of feedback as deficient in a number of respects. In this paper we explore how students perceive generic feedback on a mathematics assignment provided via screencasts. Our study is based on a Differential Equations module taught to first and second year students at a United Kingdom university. Our analysis of a student survey of this novel approach to feedback indicates that some students prefer screencast feedback to written feedback for a number of reasons: it is perceived to be more personal, it provides a richer experience than handwritten comments, it can be accessed anytime and replayed and paused as needed, it assists with learning how to communicate mathematics and it helps develop mathematical thinking skills. In fact, we show that this form of feedback is effective according to Sadler’s (Instructional Science 18:119–144, 1989) definition of effective feedback.
History
School
- Science
Department
- Mathematics Education Centre
Published in
International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics EducationVolume
1Issue
3Pages
363 - 385Citation
ROBINSON, M., LOCH, B. and CROFT, T., 2015. Student perceptions of screencast feedback on mathematics assessment. International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 1(3), pp. 363-385.Publisher
© SpringerVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2015Notes
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40753-015-0018-6ISSN
2198-9745eISSN
2198-9753Publisher version
Language
- en