Effects of learner choice over automated, immediate feedback

IF 4.7 1区教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Learning and Instruction Pub Date : 2024-12-23 DOI:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102065

Livia Kuklick

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Abstract

Background

Although computer-based formative assessment systems with automated feedback can effectively foster learning, such systems have been criticized for often lacking feedback-related choices.

Aims

This experiment aimed to investigate the benefits of introducing learner choices over feedback and students’ feedback-retrieval behavior when its retrieval is optional.

Method

160 undergraduates worked on a computer-based geometry assessment. They either received system-administered, immediate elaborated feedback (n = 80; system-administered group) or chose after each task whether they wanted to retrieve the feedback or not (n = 80; choice group). The assessment system tracked the time spent on the feedback, transfer performance, and feedback-retrieval behavior in the choice group, while students repeatedly rated their control-value appraisals and emotions. Data was analyzed with mixed-effects models.

Results

The choice option did not improve how students reacted to the feedback cognitively, emotionally nor motivationally but students in the choice group showed very high feedback-retrieval rates. Moreover, further analyses showed that feedback-retrieval rates declined with increasing item position and that the nonretrieval of feedback in the choice group was associated with a less pleasant emotional state compared to the system-administered feedback.

Conclusion

Data indicate that a task-level feedback choice may not substantially improve students’ reactions to the feedback itself, but that it may be worth further investigating the determinants and consequences of the (non)retrieval of feedback. Further, results imply that students have a strong behavioral tendency to choose task-level, elaborated feedback over no feedback; this has important implications for the design of assessments with feedback-related learner choices.

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Learning and Instruction Multiple-

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11.30

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4.80%

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109

期刊介绍： As an international, multi-disciplinary, peer-refereed journal, Learning and Instruction provides a platform for the publication of the most advanced scientific research in the areas of learning, development, instruction and teaching. The journal welcomes original empirical investigations. The papers may represent a variety of theoretical perspectives and different methodological approaches. They may refer to any age level, from infants to adults and to a diversity of learning and instructional settings, from laboratory experiments to field studies. The major criteria in the review and the selection process concern the significance of the contribution to the area of learning and instruction, and the rigor of the study.