An online discussion between students and teachers: a way forward for meaningful teacher feedback?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Student evaluation is an essential component in feedback processes in faculty and learner development. Ease of use and low cost have made paper evaluation forms a popular method within teaching programmes, but they are often seen as a formality, offering variable value towards the improvement of teaching. Students report poor motivation to engage with existing feedback tools whilst teachers describe receiving vague, contradicting, or irrelevant information. We believe that feedback for teachers needs to be a two-way process, similar to feedback for students, for it to be effective. An online feedback tool has been implemented for third-year medical students from Imperial College London to promote open discussion between teachers and students. The feedback tool is accessi

SUBMITTER: Hunukumbure AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8139045 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature