Engaging A Growth Mindset: Harnessing Assessment Feedback To Engage Students In Learning

Providing students with feedback is often seen as an integral component of the grading process that is provided often directive or corrective tone. We will explore re-conceiving feedback as an opportunity to encourage student learning. We will propose an approach to providing feedback that builds assessment capital.Shifting comments to a conversational tone facilitates thinking, students are then encouraged to engage with the feedback and reflect upon how their work is assessed. Further it builds self-efficacy to apply this knowledge to future assessment. This approach to feedback draws the student into learning mode and supports a growth mindset. The feedback is provided to engage the student,to broaden their thinking and perspective and engage in metacognition, rather than training them to ‘ace’ a single type of assessment.