Today      • Brief intro: project and team
            • Recap on feedback – what we already know: 
              • The problem with feedback – why we need to spend time on it
              • Conceptions of (effective) feedback
            • A new definition of feedback (both useful and challenging)
            • Key findings: from large-scale survey
            • Feedback in your university context
            • Key findings: from seven cases of effective feedback
            • Break
            • Using the Feedback for Learning framework 
            • Closing the loop – how might this be used in your context
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  Team           Monash
                  •Associate Professor Michael Henderson
                  •Dr Mike Phillips
                  •Dr Tracii Ryan
                 Melbourne
                  •Professor Elizabeth Molloy
                 Deakin
                  •Professor David Boud
                  •Associate Professor Phillip Dawson
                  •Ms Paige Mahoney
                 Hong Kong University
                  • Professor David Carless (project evaluator)
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 The project:
 “Feedback for Learning: Closing the 
 Assessment Loop”
     Asks “What works, when, and why?”       • Conducted a large-scale, mixed-methods 
     and “What is enabling excellent           study, including identifying cases of 
     feedback?”                                effective feedback
     Takes a social constructivist view of   • Informed by literature and expertise from 
     feedback and an ecological                team, evaluator and reference group
     perspective on higher education         • To develop a framework of “conditions for 
                                               success”
                                             • To deliver workshops and reusable 
                                               materials for the sector
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 The project:
 “Feedback for Learning: Closing the 
 Assessment Loop”
                     feedbackforlearning.org
                       #feedbackforlearning
  The problem with feedback
    •Learners complain that they do not get enough feedback
    •Both parties describe it as confronting
    •Both parties agree that it is very important
    •Educators resent that although they put considerable time into generating feedback, 
    learners take little notice of it
    •Educators typically think their feedback is more useful than their learners think 
    •Feedback is typically ‘telling’ and diagnostic in flavour, often lacking strategies for 
    improvement, and often lacking opportunities for further task attempts
                        Ende 1995; Hattie 2009; Boud & Molloy 2013; Johnson & Molloy 2017
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