It has a purpose beyond justifying a mark: Examining the alignment between the purpose and practice of feedback

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dc.contributor.authorvan Heerden, Martina
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-05T07:47:02Z
dc.date.available2023-06-05T07:47:02Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractResearch has shown that written feedback is important for studentlearning and development. However, the messages embedded in feed-back may lead to students being misled about what they need to learnor how they need to develop. This article reports on a small-scale inves-tigation into the messages embedded in feedback. Legitimation CodeTheory was used to first conceptualise the often-hidden purpose of adiscipline (English Studies), and concomitantly of feedback within thediscipline, and second to analyse actual comments given to first-yearstudents on their assignments. It was found that there is a clear mis-alignment between the purpose and practice of feedback, thereby sug-gesting that students are receiving misleading messages about whatthey need for success within the discipline. This may have implicationsbeyond merely passing the module. A suggestion is made to activelyconsider, and develop, feedback as a discipline-specific literacy.en_US
dc.identifier.citationvan Heerden, M. (2020). It has a purpose beyond justifying a mark: Examining the alignment between the purpose and practice of feedback. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 45(3), 359-371. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2019.1644602en_US
dc.identifier.issn1469-297X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2019.1644602
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/9003
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Groupen_US
dc.subjectEnglish studiesen_US
dc.subjectTeaching and Learningen_US
dc.subjectStudent writersen_US
dc.subjectWriting skillsen_US
dc.subjectCreative writingen_US
dc.titleIt has a purpose beyond justifying a mark: Examining the alignment between the purpose and practice of feedbacken_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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