Is Electronic Feedback a Future Perfect for Students? - Gauging students' views on electronic feedback
Abstract: Teachers and students have benefitted greatly from the speed and scope of recent technological innovation. Annotation software applications are a new technology that holds important implications for how feedback on written assignments is accessed and used by students. Annotation software applications can deliver faster more portable feedback to students. Such software applications also seem a means of enhancing the teacher-student feedback process by offering a more interactive feedback incorporating written and audio comments, as well as images. Whether students themselves prefer electronic feedback over handwritten feedback on paper is an important question. This poster presentation reveals that students appear lukewarm about the apparent advantages of electronic feedback and may be more wedded to conventional forms of feedback than is commonly assumed.