Publication Date
2017
Keywords
assessment as learning, internal feedback, self-reflection, self-evaluation, dialogic feedback
Abstract
Sustainable feedback practices, that can encourage self-regulation of performance and improvement in future work beyond an immediate task, require our students to be active participants in, and users of, the feedback we provide. Critical to this participation are the internal feedback mechanisms of reflection and self-assessment. They require students to make evaluations about their own writing without the aid of external agents, which in turn can encourage better use of teacher feedback. Moreover, dialogic collaborative feedback that encourages this type of self-evaluation through interactive cover sheets has been featured in existing practitioner research studies. This teaching article presents an extension to the use of such cover sheets to include student self-evaluation and reflection in relation to specific marking criteria as part of an existing feedback cycle on a first-year undergraduate course. Observations from the practitioner research presented here highlight how the inclusion of such rubric criteria not only helped to develop students’ confidence in independently monitoring and evaluating their writing but also heightened awareness of the rhetorical features of their texts.
Recommended Citation
Rodway, Claire Louise
(2017)
"Encouraging Active Participation in Dialogic Feedback through Assessment as Learning,"
Journal of Response to Writing: Vol. 3:
Iss.
2, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/journalrw/vol3/iss2/5