"I Want It That Way": A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Primary School Students' Perceptions of Feedback

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Abstract

With a growing emphasis on students playing an active role in the feedback process, understanding how students perceive academic feedback is essential to support the implementation of relevant strategies that can drive better engagement. The current study explored elementary school students’ perceptions of feedback in two different contexts/cultures: the United Kingdom (N=67) and Indonesia (N=28). Results suggest that students in both schools hold similar understandings of the purpose of feedback, with older students showing higher awareness of the importance of process-based feedback. However, when it comes to the desired type of feedback, UK-students preferred more self/praise-based feedback, while Indonesian-students preferred task-based feedback. Potential reasons for these differences are discussed.

Authors

• Devina Christianti, University of Minnesota
  Presenting Author

• Alexandra Troy, University of Minnesota
  Presenting Author

• Martin Van Boekel, University of Minnesota
  Non-Presenting Author