LECTURE 1
New Ways of Thinking about Feedback and How Our Practices Need to Change
Speaker: Prof David Boud
Deakin Distinguished Professor, Deakin University, Australia
Feedback has been taken for granted for many years. Conventionally, it has been about teachers providing helpful comments on students’ work. However, research and scholarship over the past ten years has shown that this is not a useful way of thinking about it. The conventional assumption is that the act of feedback ends when students have received a message, and that someone in authority initiates and controls feedback. This focuses attention on what teachers do, when we should be focusing on what students do and see feedback as a tool for students own use in learning.
New ways of thinking about feedback focus on students taking an active role in the process and on the skills and dispositions needed by students and teachers, referred to as feedback literacy. The lecture will set out the changes that have occurred in the concept of feedback and the current state of scholarship in this area. It will focus on the challenges of implementing these ideas and how assessment and feedback design needs to alter to accommodate them. Prof Boud’s research on feedback has been exclusively in higher education, but participants are invited to draw implications for changing feedback in a wide range of circumstances throughout the lifespan.
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About the speaker
Professor David Boud
David Boud is Deakin Distinguished Professor and Foundation Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning at Deakin University, Australia. He is also Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. He has published extensively on teaching, learning and assessment in higher and professional education. He has been a pioneer in developing learning-centred approaches to teaching and in new conceptions of assessment and feedback. In recent years he has focused on research on assessment and feedback and has been a major figure in changing ideas in this area, for example, on self-assessment, sustainable assessment, the development of students’ evaluative judgement and new perspectives on feedback and feedback literacy. He is one of the most highly cited scholars in the world in the field of higher education having 20 publications with more than 1,000 citations and a Google Scholar h-index of 115. He received the 2022 Career Achievement Award, of the Australian Awards for University Teaching by Universities Australia.
Discussion Panel
Prof Yan Zi, Professor, EdUHK (Chair)
Dr Zou Di, Associate Professor, PolyU
Dr Yang Lan, Associate Professor, EdUHK
Ms Wang Ting Ting, Teacher, Notre Dame College (EdUHK MTeach Graduate)