Paper Info
Title
What Types of Essay Feedback Influence Implementation - Structure Alone or Structure and Content?
Abstract
Students have varying levels of experience and understanding, and need support to inform them of expectations and guide their learning efforts. Feedback is critical in this process. This study focused on the effects of providing different types of feedback on participants' written essays and on participants' motivations for learning using measures of motivation and self-efficacy. We examined whether participants performed differently in subsequent essays after receiving feedback on structure alone or on structure and content; whether their self-reported levels of motivation and attitudes to learning were related to essay performance; and whether the difference in type of feedback affected their self-reported levels of motivation and attitudes to learning. Findings revealed no significant difference in marks between those receiving feedback on structure alone and those receiving feedback on structure and content. Even so, using feedback to highlight structural elements of essay writing can have a positive impact on future essay performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-57744-9_16
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Essay structure,Feedback,Motivation,Self-efficacy,Self-reports
Conference
653
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1865-0929
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Denise Whitelock112529.26
Alison Twiner251.38
John T. E. Richardson330.86
Debora Field492.51
Stephen Pulman545038.31