The influence of student’s emotional responses on their engagement with feedback

Harris, R J (Richard)¹, Brown (Charity)¹, Havelka (Jelena)¹, Eilola (Tiina)², Birtill (Pam)^1
1School of Psychology; University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds
²School of Psychology, LS2 9JT, Leeds

 

Submission type

Poster only

Scheduled

Poster Sessions 2 (10.30-11:00), 21-07-2016, 10:30 - 11:00

Keywords

feedback, emotional responses, student engagement, assessment

Summary

To date many studies have investigated how different factors (e.g. format of feedback) influence student’s engagement with feedback (Killingback et al., 2019). However, few studies have investigated the impact of student’s emotional responses to feedback and whether the emotional response is modulated by the grade an assignment received. This study aims to understand how  emotional responses to feedback influence  students’ engagement with and their behavioural responses to that feedback. To explore these issues, we have adopted a two-stage approach to questionnaire development. In the first stage, we have generated a short, open-ended questionnaire designed to understand student's emotional responses to feedback. This questionnaire was distributed to 20 students at different stages of their degree programme. This questionnaire will be subjected to thematic analysis to identify emergent themes that underpin student's emotional responses. These themes will be used to generate a second, quantitative questionnaire for distribution to a larger scale sample. Results will be discussed with a focus on how we can take account of emotional responses, with specific suggestions designed to increase student engagement with and ultimately the effectiveness of coursework feedback.

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