Investigating shareable feedback tags for programming assignments

Stephen Cummins, Liz Burd, Andrew Hatch
2011 Computer Science Education  
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more » ... he full DRO policy for further details. This paper presents an investigation into the usage of sharable feedback tags as a way of delivering feedback to three different cohorts of programming students. A series of research questions are investigated which include investigating any perceived benefit from students using feedback tags and investigating how students interact with their feedback. Results indicate that students with both the lower and higher marks in a cohort are more likely to opt to share their feedback and programming work than students with mid-ranged marks. A variety of reasons for and against sharing given by students are discussed. Six categories of student behaviour exhibited during interaction with their feedback have been identified in this paper. This paper has shown that feedback tags can be used successfully as a form of sharable feedback and that a number of future research possibilities exist that can extend this topic.
doi:10.1080/08993408.2011.557584 fatcat:jtlkdmv4abbvlh2gpzly2hhtzm