March SoTL Journal Club

The CTSI-SoTL team is excited to offer a noon-hour SoTL Journal Club Series with monthly events throughout Fall-Winter 2021-22. The goal of this series is to provide an opportunity for our community to explore the SoTL literature in a synchronous group setting, both to find practical applications to implement in our teaching, and to inform our own SoTL projects.

Articles in this series are selected by faculty within our SoTL community, and these papers are a starting point to explore and examine one research study. The faculty facilitator provides discussion prompts to guide and engage us in conversations that will resonate across all disciplines and SoTL experience levels. 

Facilitator: Dr. Ania Harlick, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Physics, FAS

Article: Pitt, E., & Norton, L. (2017). ‘Now that’s the feedback I want!’ Students’ reactions to feedback on graded work and what they do with it. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 42(4), 499-516. [Permalink]

Discussion prompts:

1. Were there any dimensions of the student responses that surprised you?
2. Were there any dimensions of student responses that you expected to see that were not present?
3. Taking into consideration students' diverse needs around feedback, and our diverse fields, how would you find out what your students need from feedback to improve their performance?
4. Think about a course that you're teaching. Based on what the authors asked their students and what they found, what is one specific question you could ask your students to learn about their responses to feedback?

Our facilitator also invites participants to fill out a Mentimeter (code 8262 3775) in response to the question "What are dimensions of feedback that are important to you?" See other submitted responses here.

CTSI Staff:
Cora McCloy, PhD, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, SoTL Kyle Turner, MSc, Faculty Liaison, Teaching and Learning

Please email cora.mccloy@utoronto.ca with any questions about this event.