On feedback
Basic information about feedback
| Serwis: |
mapped-project |
| Kurs: |
E-portfolio course 2.0 (EN) |
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On feedback |
| Wydrukowane przez użytkoniwka: |
Gość |
| Data: |
czwartek, 10 grudzień 2015, 08:43 |
Any assessment is directly linked to the goals - educational, professional or personal - that we set for ourselves.
Different
types of e-portfolio will require therefore different appraoches to the assessment:
- presentational: considers visual, layout and general persception of the work;
- working: considers number of artifacts, organisation, files format, size of teh files and accessibility;
- assessment: considers criteria set by the audience (eg. board of examinators, a teacher, certifying body);
- developmental: considers formative asssessment for learning;
Read again evaluation criteria and analyse them agains 4 e-portfolio types. IDo you think it is possible to match the elements directly? Your aim is to create a professional development e-portfolio.
Most probably your initial drafts will reflect less complex goal, but as you work on it in time your e-portfolio can become your personal online coach. It will depend on the comments, reflections and feedback that you receive from the others - your friends, colelagues, other course participants, family.
Feedback is to give you clues, ideas, stimuli to reflect. It is information about where you are on your professional developmen path, hint and inspiration for furtehr development.
feedback is always subjective. This is the main difference between feedbakc and assessment. The latter is based on objectives, criterias, measures and indicators. In feedback you refer to your personal experience, observation, opinions, emotions. You use sentences with "I think", "In my opinion" to emphasise the perspective.
It is important to focus on only a few most important issues that can be valuable to the person you give feedback to. Abundance of information can be overwhealming and discuraging. Select 1-2 main points that can be improved. Begin and end your feedback with a distinctive positive remark. Describe what is good and important - positive feedback is an energiser that stimulates development. Aknowledge it.
- make sure you understand the aim of the e-portfolio. Think of the target audience - can you identify it?
- at first describe what you can see. focus on facts. Use evidence, not hypothesis.
Oh, what a wonderful graphics! I simply love the colour! And teh backround, too, really astonishing and elegant with this fancy font.
I can see you selected red as a leading colour. It makes quite a contrast to the white backround.
- Write/ say what is importat to the author and what he/she can built upon.
Good work! Nice, well done. Not so good this time.
I think that if the file was provided in different format it would be easier to open it. Perhaps you can record this speech.
- Avoid definite statements "you never - you always". Labelling is hardly useful and distracts the overall picture.
But you never get involved in the projects! / You haven't been involved in an internal project since 2005.
It was tipical of you to enroll in the alpinism course. / You've been involved in it for years so this course is a follow-up to your activities.
Alumni of this school have always been good at math. / Half of the students from this school have chosen math related studies.
- Describe the effect/ result
Great! I liked it!
It is easier to read the text because of this layout. Red attracts the viewers' attantion. It distracts me.
- Focus on behavior and results that can be changed, but not on the person.Describe the consequences.
You are so nice and you have such a nice smile that it is difficult for the clients to concentrate on the subject when they talk to you.
I can see that you burs into a laud laugh when talking to a client. It can be distractive for them.
- If relevant, describe your feelings
I like the colours you used for th backround.
I don't like when my text is used without referencing.
It is useful to assume that the person giving feedback has positive intentions. He/she has no purpose in harming, humilitating or making anybody unhappy but giving support, help, appreciation and motivation.
Receive feedback as information. You don't have to agree with it but still you can draw conclusions and reflection upon it.
Don't defend yourself. Don't explain. Think over what you've heard, jot down your remarks, ask for clarification.
Be self-confident - your work is significant to you.
Rethink the information received. If you don't agree with parts of it try to work out why? You can identify your strong sides and assets.
If it is your first feedback experience you may find it useful to read more about it. Browse through the articles that formed the base for this text.
Webpage with training resources for teachers from medical high school.
Module 4 is about feedback.
The article about
giving feedback on Mindtools and article on
receiving feedback giving bu others.