What students do with feedback: feedback uptake and feedback literacy
What is feedback uptake?
In the assessment for learning paradigm, these actions shall be oriented to improving their learning. Therefore, they look back on how they performed, but they also look forward, with the aim to improve their future performance.
Feedback uptake is essential in assessment for learning; it is the result of the learner actively using feedback with a formative purpose. Feedback uptake oriented to learning requires a good command of feedback literacy and self-regulation skills.
What is feedback literacy?
Feedback literacy is defined as the understandings, capacities and dispositions needed to make sense of information and use it to enhance work or learning strategies. Feedback literacy is associated to any agent that intervenes in the assessment process; both teachers and students must develop it.
Reflection activity:
Now that you have learned about feedback literacy...
- Do you think you have a good level of feedback literacy?
- Why do you think so?
- What could you do to improve your feedback literacy?
Feedback literacy for students
When learners have developed feedback literacy, they:
- appreciate feedback as an active and reciprocal process, of which they are part
- recognize the role of feedback in their continuous improvement
- are active in seeking out and engaging with feedback from others
- are open to critique and are sensitive and constructive in offering feedback to others
- have the skills to interpret and act on the feedback they receive
- self-regulate their learning process
Do you want to know how you can develop your students’ feedback literacy?
Let’s hear it from them!
