ERIC Number: EJ1042902
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Nov
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Prompting Secondary Students' Use of Criteria, Feedback Specificity and Feedback Levels during an Investigative Task
Gan, Mark J. S.; Hattie, John
Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, v42 n6 p861-878 Nov 2014
This study investigates the effects of prompting on secondary students' written peer feedback in chemistry investigation reports. In particular, we examined students' feedback features in relation to the use of criteria, feedback specificity, and feedback levels. A quasi-experimental pre-test post-test design was adopted. Reviewers in the prompted condition were provided with question prompts that asked them to pose written feedback to their peers on what they did or did not do well and suggestions for improvement, while reviewers in the unprompted condition gave written peer feedback without prompts. The findings showed that prompted peer feedback has a significant effect on the number of comments related to Knowledge of errors, Suggestions for improvement and Process level feedback. This study supports the view that prompting peer feedback in the use of criteria, feedback specificity and feedback levels opens up opportunity for reviewers to engage more meaningfully with peer feedback in report writing tasks.
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Feedback (Response), Investigations, Prompting, Chemistry, Criteria, Use Studies, Quasiexperimental Design, Pretests Posttests, Peer Evaluation, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Error Patterns, Research Reports, Writing Improvement, Revision (Written Composition), Teaching Methods
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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