“Higher education institutions are being criticised more for inadequacies in the feedback they provide to students than for almost any other aspect of their course..." (Boud & Molloy 2013, p. 698).
...and in Australia, the Course Experience Questionnaire consistently report that graduates are less satisfied with assessment and feedback than other features of their courses. #feedback#studentfeedback@CRADLEdeakin#LTHEchat@NCVER
@CRADLEdeakin@NCVER As educators, it is important that we approach feedback in a way that ensures we are meeting the challenges and preferences of the adult student cohort. How do you meet the sometimes competing demands? #FirstYearExperience#feedback#highereducation
@CRADLEdeakin@NCVER To me, the answer lies in providing personalised feedback that feeds forward and responds to the changing needs of learners. I choose to do this with audio-video (screen-casted) feedback.
@CRADLEdeakin@NCVER “Some types of feedback are more powerful than others [...] the most effective forms of feedback provide cues or reinforcement to learners; are in the form of video-, audio-, or computer assisted instructional feedback; and relate to goals” (Hattie & Timperley 2007)
@CRADLEdeakin@NCVER@uiowa Instructor Wanda Raiford, J.D., Ph.D., explains how the use of audio or video recordings turn grading papers into an invigorating conversation with students (@UICfT):
@CRADLEdeakin@NCVER “Students are overwhelmingly positive about audio-video- based assessment feedback. Students provided unsolicited responses to the video feedback in the form of direct emails to the teachers or via the discussion forums” (Henderson & Phillips 2013).
Most of the feedback literature is dominated by white scholars & they're struggling to understand why there is a lack of "uptake"... yet many seem unwilling to unpack & address white supremacy...
Receiving academic feedback requires a lot of decoding & interpreting, plus responding! but psychological & semantic 'noise' (both from sender & receiver e.g., jargon & abstraction & 'histories'/prior microagressions) can inhibit this 'dialogic cycle'...
Academic 'counterspaces', can operate as optimal psychological environments for feedback - that support students culturally & emotionally...
Demands for equality has been, increasingly, met with calls for 'law and order' & @cityofurbana & @Urbana116 leaders continue to argue that “positive” interactions between police & youth of color are essential to better community relations.
That is the narrative that @cityofurbana public officials & @Urbana116 Board of Education used to form a partnership between the school district & the Urbana police in 1994 which has now become fully-funded with education dollars in December 2019.
The positive rhetoric surrounding this initiative has normalized a sustained, increasingly invasive, & even hostile police presence in low-income educational institutions.
The more I read, the more I am informed & aware of revolutionary struggles, cycles, waves, thrusts and perils, & have recognized well before today that we have entered a global revolutionary cycle...
This one, coinciding with a massive consciousness/ awakening, will be more cataclysmic than any this planet has yet undergone.
We are totally transforming - politically, economically, spiritually, technologically, & "planetarily."
I recently finished up interviews with @WCIA3 & @wandtvnews regarding the @cityofurbana juvenile arrest data for 2019/2020 & I wanted to post additional thoughts that may not be captured in the released interviews due to time constraints...
Please don't center me (be it for praise or otherwise). When this is done, it shifts the focus.
I am not an expert in restorative justice, community action, nor racial equity; there are many experts & they, along w/ the youth, should be front & center - leading the way for change.
Let's discuss the importance of restorative justice through a critical race lens,@cityofurbana. In 2015, there were 667 total suspensions (in-school and out-of school) at @Urbana116. Of those, 66% were Black students (1)
The question of safety in schools is not just about preventing extreme forms of violence, fights, or bullying. It is also about shrinking the achievement gap since the way @Urbana116 disciplines its students will either help or hurt academic achievement (2)