Annotated Bibliography: Effective Feedback in Higher Education at QUT

This annotated bibliography, prepared by Prabhjot Singh from QUT, examines the concept of effective feedback in higher education. It includes two key articles: the first focuses on student perceptions of feedback, emphasizing its role as a communication tool and its impact on academic performance, highlighting the need for teacher-student communication and the limitations of the study due to a small sample size. The second article reviews the theoretical aspects of feedback, exploring its influence on student behavior and academic careers, the importance of timely feedback, and its impact on learners, while also noting the lack of clarity in discussing certain theories. Both articles contribute to understanding the role of feedback in shaping student learning experiences. The bibliography provides a valuable resource for further research into effective teaching and learning strategies.

Running head: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Annotated Bibliography
Name of the Student: Prabhjot Singh
Name of the University: QUT
Author Note:

1ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Feedback refers to the information about a person’s performance of any task, an
effectiveness of which is considered the key tool in the process of learning in case of students.
Good feedback makes any information more qualitative that helps students to understand the
concept of the study as a whole. There are different types of feedback serving different purposes.
However, an effective feedback helps to evaluate the quality of any work. Considering the
students perspective, it is essential that they realize the need of effective feedback and reconsider
their perception about the same.
Poulos, A., & Mahony, M. J. (2008). Effectiveness of feedback: The students’
perspective. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 33(2), 143-154.
The article emphasize on the student’s perceptions of feedback. It elevates the concept of
effectiveness of feedback, which is an essential requisite for students in their academic life. The
authors study four different groups of students to make a thematic analysis in order to figure out
the perception of the students on effective feedback. Effective feedback serves as a
communication tool and evaluates the impact and credibility of it on the students. Late feedback
on the other side hampers the academic result of the students. The article draws out the existing
relation between feedback and the perceptions of the teachers or lecturers. Apart from the
perception, impact and credibility of students connoted as the key dimensions of effective
feedback, the need for proper communication between the teachers and students. Methods of
practice and research are equally given importance. Thus, the article helps to accelerate the need
and use of effective feedback for students and denotes its implications on the students surveyed
for the study. The article serves to be very useful for further studies on the topic. The drawback
of the article is that since only four-selected group of students have been surveyed from
University of Sydney, the results may vary in analyzing students from different backgrounds.

2ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Thurlings, M., Vermeulen, M., Bastiaens, T., & Stijnen, S. (2013). Understanding feedback:
A learning theory perspective. Educational Research Review, 9, 1-15.
The article makes a review on the core concept of feedback, formulating a theoretical
research that includes feedback in classrooms. It studies the impact of feedback from teachers to
influence the academic career of the students. The effective feedback from teachers shapes the
behavior of the students as constructed from the behaviorism theory. The feedback makes the
students to indulge in focused tasks and work on their mistakes instantly. It helps them to realize
the difference between the performance done and the performance expected of them. A bridging
of this gap improves the efficiency of the students for which an active guidance and participation
of the teachers is compulsory to provide them with effective feedback. Several characteristics
influencing feedback such as timings, emotions and effects of feedback on learners are studied
that helps to understand the depth of the concept. Separate charts that identify the feedback
characteristics have made the concept very clear increasing the applicability of the article for
further understanding of the concept. The pitfall of the article is that the theories dealt with, in
the article are explicitly discussed that lacks clarity and descriptions. Some of the theories do not
focus on the perspectives of the teachers or lecturers that often make the study complicated.

3ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bibliography:
Poulos, A., & Mahony, M. J. (2008). Effectiveness of feedback: The students’
perspective. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 33(2), 143-154.
Thurlings, M., Vermeulen, M., Bastiaens, T., & Stijnen, S. (2013). Understanding feedback: A
learning theory perspective. Educational Research Review, 9, 1-15.