Thrive 23 - Why peer feedback when teacher feedback is better?

Why do you want to invest in peer feedback when teacher feedback is better in terms of the quality of the feedback message given?

From the perspective of developing feedback literacy for sustainable life-long learning

Students need to make the judgement of the feedback given by their peers to see if it is accurate (in terms of information provided to reject or accept) constructive (in terms of actionable to move their work forward or improve the quality of their work) instead of relying on teacher as the source of feedback without being critical about the feedback given

Students may be reluctant to have a dialogue with authoritative teachers to provide feedback that is critical

From the perspective of the teacher seeing students as instructional resources

Students brought with them a rich experience at secondary school, this experience can be used to enrich the content of the work through feedback by providing a different perspective from that of a teacher. 

In the context of a big group (20 or more) of students doing coursework where the theme is very broad (e.g transporting) and each student have a different design problem, with different design ability, it is challenging for the teacher to meet the needs of each and every student. When peers are enculturated to provide feedback with assessment resources given such as (exemplars from the teacher, quality criteria, the standards of work from peers, and even validated rubrics), students can be enculturated to be "critical friends"  

From the social mixing perspective to develop an inclusive learning environment 

Peer feedback invite comments from sources other than the teacher and promote interaction within group, if orchestrated well, would lead to empathy, trust of team member and develop camaraderie (Hu & Lam, 2010; Chang, 2015 as cited by Han & Xu, 2020) 

From the perspective of closing the educational gap for the lower-achieving students

Based on Prof Min research work on peer feedback in writing, lower-achieving students feel that could gain a lot from peers as sometimes it is easier for them to receive suggestions from peers than from authoritative teachers. Seeing how their peer design (with video technology) exposed lower-achieving students to both the quality process and product. 

From the perspective of motivation


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

2024 Thrive 3 - Self-evaluation of sketching using pen

First lesson with 2I (80-min) 20 pax (10 boys & 10 girls) - The use of Ideo video as a resource to test current students' design capability through reflection was not carried out. It is more of checking for understanding rather than facilitating self-reflecting as a class community. If I were to do it again, how can self-assessment be better embedded in the activity and facilitated? How to design a worksheet that embeds self-assessment? You see what we draw so we can improve our drawing - use a pen not pencil. In my research in 2018, it appears that student improves their sketching faster when they sketch with a pen. Why? they can't erase. They dare to explore  (1) Diagnostic assessment of sketching. Students at this age can identify if their observation sketch is accurate. When they are directed to evaluate their first attempt of sketching from observation using rules (isometric or perspective rule). All followed my instructions to improve. However, a 3 uses correction ta...
Read more

My reflection with AI about the STEM project

 I have just completed a STEM workshop with my students. I would like to reflect about this workshop to any of you. ChatGPT That sounds great, Joon Yong! How did the workshop go? What activities did you and your students work on, and what were some key moments or challenges you encountered? 4o We are working on building a chair using a cardboard. The requirement is to be able to withstand three kilos of weight, and also have a leg that is 15 cm long. However, based on my knowledge about knowledge building, I decided for them to make a wheelchair that the humans can sit on. ChatGPT It sounds like you extended the challenge to make it more engaging and relevant. How did your students respond to the new requirement of designing a wheelchair? Did they come up with any innovative ideas or encounter any specific difficulties? 4o Indeed, the outcome surprises us. Everyone is game to attempt, and all the groups have come up with a real-size chat at the end of the day. ChatGPT That's impres...
Read more