Human Biology

Online assessment feedback as an instrument of reflective practice

Author: 
Kayty Plastow
Institution: 
The University of Western Australia
Year Level: 
First Year
Key Assessment Issue Addressed: 

Feedback for online assessment

 

Following the administration and analysis of a questionnaire on feedback to ~1000 first year students across three institutions, our project team wrote feedback comments for right and wrong MCQ responses in electronic test banks for the three institutions. Feedback to a student's particular right and wrong answers is delivered immediately after the submission of each online test. The guiding principles in writing these feedback comments, as developed from the questionnaire responses, were: