Using Language Technologies to support individual formative feedback

Alisdair Smithies; Isobel Braidman; Debra Haley; Fridolin Wild; A.J. Berlanga Flores

Using Language Technologies to support individual formative feedback

Alisdair Smithies, Isobel Braidman, Debra Haley, Fridolin Wild, A.J. Berlanga Flores

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Abstract

In modern educational environments for group learning it is often challenging for tutors to provide timely individual formative feedback to learners. Taking the case of undergraduate Medicine, we have found that formative feedback is generally provided to learners on an ad-hoc basis, usually at the group, rather than individual, level. Consequently, conceptual issues for individuals often remain undetected until summative assessment. In many subject domains, learners will typically produce written materials to record their study activities. One way for tutors to diagnose conceptual development issues for an individual learner would be to analyse the contents of the learning materials they produce, which would be a significant undertaking.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 9th European Conference on e-Learning
Editors	Pauls Escudeiro
Place of Publication	Reading
Publisher	Academic Conferences Ltd
Pages	570-577
Volume	2
ISBN (Print)	978-1-63439-580-9
Publication status	Published - 10 Nov 2010
Event	The 9th European conference on e-learning - Porto, Portugal Duration: 4 Nov 2010 → 5 Nov 2010 Conference number: 9

Conference

Conference	The 9th European conference on e-learning
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Porto
Period	4/11/10 → 5/11/10

Keywords

LTfLL
formative feedback
conceptual development
language technologies

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Using Language Technologies to support individual formative feedback. / Smithies, Alisdair; Braidman, Isobel; Haley, Debra et al.
Proceedings of 9th European Conference on e-Learning. ed. / Pauls Escudeiro. Vol. 2 Reading: Academic Conferences Ltd, 2010. p. 570-577.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Article in proceeding › Academic › peer-review

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