FeedbackFruits pilot 2023
25 January 2023Image adapted from JJ Jordan on Pexels
Are you interested in exploring tools that support student assessment and feedback? Please join our FeedbackFruits pilot.
During 2023, the University of Auckland is piloting a suite of tools available from FeedbackFruits. We are particularly interested in exploring the potential for the Group Member Evaluation and Peer Review tools to enhance group work, feedback and reflection activities and assessment.
More detail about how FeedbackFruits can support these learning activities is outlined below. If you are interested in participating this pilot, please email Ranga Auaha Ako | Learning & Teaching Design Team.
Why are we running this pilot?
FeedbackFruits has the potential to support all three of the University’s Signature Pedagogical Practices.
- Relational learning can be facilitated through the group-based tools within FeedbackFruits, helping students to discuss, collaborate and build connections with each other.
- Assessment for learning can be supported, particularly through the peer review tool. Peer review can help students to develop a better understanding of the expectations around a particular assessment by reviewing their own and others’ work.
- Technology Enhanced Learning can be integrated into teaching practice through the use of FeedbackFruits. FeedbackFruits has the potential to expand the ways in which student learning can be supported through technologies and is integrated with Canvas, so groups can be utilised seamlessly within activities and grades can be fed back into the Canvas Gradebook.
Group member evaluation tool
Students provide feedback about other group members, typically when a submission is not required. Commonly used for staff to collate student reflections and feedback on how other team members have performed in a group project.
Why? Allowing students to evaluate their peers’ contributions to a group project helps provide students a sense of ‘fairness’ to project work. Students can be asked to rate and comment on a range of criteria addressing different aspects of the group work experience.
Peer review tool
Students reflect and provide feedback on work submitted by others, with options to request students to complete a self-assessment. Peer Review can be set up to allow students to submit individually or in groups.
Why? Comments from peers not only provides another perspective on a student’s work and timely feedback, but the act of reviewing another’s work reinforces the reviewer’s knowledge and requires a higher-order cognitive skill. Self-reflection using a rubric develops a student’s reflection skills and provides students with a model to critically reflect on their own work.