Student Perceptions of Assessment and Feedback - are they valid?

Crosby, Ryan

Abstract

Although good assessment and feedback practices are widely recognised as crucial to learning, historical UK NSS results illustrate that current practices leave students dissatisfied the most in terms of their overall learning experience. This paper outlines some of the issues causing this dissatisfaction and uses historical data from a UK undergraduate CS course at our institution to test if student perceptions are valid. The results show that issues identified by students such as feedback being too negative or lacking in clarity did hold true for the data available and we outline ways in which these problems could be addressed and could be of value to the wider HE CS community.

Citation

Crosby, R. (2021). Student Perceptions of Assessment and Feedback - are they valid?. In CEP '21: Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Computing Education Practice (5-8). https://doi.org/10.1145/3437914.3437970

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: CEP '21: Computing Education Practice 2021
• Start Date: Jan 7, 2021
• Acceptance Date: Dec 21, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jan 7, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021-01
• Deposit Date: Apr 19, 2022
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 5-8
• Book Title: CEP '21: Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Computing Education Practice
• ISBN: 9781450389594
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3437914.3437970
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1138315