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Our research project & aims for this workshop

Lessons learned from our FDTL5 project: Engaging Students with Assessment Feedback FDTL Final Conference November 2009 Dr Jill Millar & Dr Karen Handley jmillar@brookes.ac.uk & khandley@brookes.ac.uk. Our research project & aims for this workshop. Research project

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Our research project & aims for this workshop

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  1. Business School Lessons learned from our FDTL5 project:Engaging Students with Assessment FeedbackFDTL Final ConferenceNovember 2009Dr Jill Millar & Dr Karen Handley jmillar@brookes.ac.uk & khandley@brookes.ac.uk

  2. Our research project & aims for this workshop • Research project • Investigate and encourage the adoption of feedback practices which support student engagement • Share understandings of the student experience in HE • The 4 stages of our research • 35 student and staff interviews; 760 questionnaires on student views on different types of feedback (2006-7) • 7 case studies with 3 partner HE institutions (2006-7) • 5 cascade partner initiatives in 5 HE institutions (2007-8) • 12 transferability partner micro case studies in 5 HEIs (2008-9) • Aims for this workshop • Lessons learned about our 'cascade' partner approach • Lessons learned - and questions still remaining - about how to research students' experiences of feedback [access & methodology] Business School

  3. Our cascade approach - structure Business School

  4. Our cascade approach – benefits and tensions Benefits Broadening and deepening of ideas Broadening and deepening of involvement Testing and re-testing of methods Tensions Heterogeneity of results: less robust? Communication? Control! Business School

  5. Lessons and questions about our methodology: (1) talking to students … • Ethical considerations: • Dependency • Power relationships • Our ethics committee regulations • Attracting interest: • Emails? • Talking to large groups • PC 'message of the day'; or links from VLE • Adverts • 'Willing to listen' lists • Recruitment by 'friendly' students? • Retaining interest: • Incentives? (lunch; digital recorders; vouchers?) - what else? • Logistics and timetables Business School 5

  6. Lessons and questions about our methodology: (1) talking to students … • Ethical considerations: • Dependency • Power relationships • Our ethics committee regulations • Attracting interest: • Emails? • Talking to large groups • PC 'message of the day'; or links from VLE • Adverts • 'Willing to listen' lists • Recruitment by 'friendly' students? • Retaining interest: • Incentives? (lunch; digital recorders; vouchers?) - what else? • Logistics and timetables Business School 9

  7. Lessons and questions about our methodology: (2) researching student engagement Business School 10

  8. Lessons and questions about our methodology: (2) researching student engagement Business School 11

  9. Lessons and questions about our methodology: (2) researching student engagement Business School 12

  10. Lessons and questions about our methodology: (2) researching student engagement • The need to consider the temporal and relational (sociocultural) dimensions of engagement (Price et al., 2009; Handley et al., 2009) • The need to (re)consider the appropriate unit-of-analysis and appropriate methods: • Individual properties vs processes of sociocultural activity (Matusov, 2009, p320) • Holism as ‘an impossible methodological task’ (Matusov, 2009, p323) • Impossibility of seeing context; but can we see the ‘seeds of time’ (Mercer, 2009) • ‘Planes of analysis’ (Rogoff, 1995) [UoA is never self-contained and is always part of a bigger system which has to be considered] Business School 13

  11. Lessons and questions about our methodology: (2) researching student engagement • The need to consider the temporal and relational (and sociocultural) dimensions of engagement (Price et al., 2009; Handley et al., 2009) • The need to (re)consider the appropriate unit-of-analysis and appropriate methods • Choices we’re still thinking about: Business School 14

  12. Lessons and questions about our FDTL project: Engaging students with assessment feedback • Lessons learned: • Benefits and tensions in using a cascade approach • The need to reconsider our unit-of-analysis • Questions ... • How can we attract student involvement in our research? • What methods give us a window onto the relational and temporal dimensions of student engagement with feedback? Business School 15

  13. References • Handley, K., Price, M. & Millar, J. (2009 in submission) ‘Beyond 'doing time': investigating the concept of student engagement with feedback’ • Matusov, E. (2009) ‘In search of ‘the appropriate’ unit of analysis for socio-cultural research’, Culture and Psychology, 13, 3, 307-333 • Mercer, N. (2008) ‘The seeds of time: Why classroom dialogue needs a temporal analysis’, Journal of the Learning Sciences, 17, 33-59 • Price, M., Handley, K. & Millar, J. (2009 in submission) ‘Feedback - focussing attention on engagement’ • Rogoff, B. (1995) ‘Observing sociocultural activity on three planes’. In J V Wertsch et al., Sociocultural studies of mind. New York: Cambridge University Press Business School 16

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