ERIC Number: EJ1180112
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
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Promoting Student Engagement with Academic Literacy Feedback: An Institute Wide Initiative
Cleary, Ann; Delahunt, Brid; Fox, Claire; Maguire, Moira; O'Connor, Lorna; Ward, Jamie
Practitioner Research in Higher Education, v11 n1 p101-109 2018
The transition to Higher Education, while often exciting, is demanding for many students. Successful transition necessitates learning the conventions of scholarly conversation, including how to read and create work in an academic context. Knowledge of academic literacy practices is an important part of this process but these discourses and practices are often unfamiliar to students and this has implications for the development of academic identities. In this article, we report on an institution-wide initiative between librarians, lecturers and learning developers, designed to raise awareness of the role of feedback in developing academic literacies. While the rate of participation was low this initiative offered a space outside the formal curriculum and assessment processes to engage with students about feedback. The associated publicity raised the profile of feedback internally and offered valuable opportunities to open conversations about feedback with students and staff. The evolution of the initiative is discussed.
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Feedback (Response), Higher Education, Information Literacy, Academic Discourse, Transitional Programs, Student Experience, Reflection, Institutional Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Teamwork, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom; Ireland
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