Toward Understanding the Feedback Process: Students' Task and Feedback Processing Speed

• In Event: Exploring Feedback to Students: Research and Practice

Abstract

Digitization facilitates feedback implementation in educational assessments. While the impact of feedback on learning received much attention, conclusions regarding processing measures (Time on Task [TOT], Time on Feedback [TOF]) as behavioral indicators of students’ test-taking engagement are still lacking empirical evidence. In this experiment with 335 students, we compared Knowledge of Correct Response (KCR) and Answer-Until-Correct (AUC) feedback to a no-feedback control condition regarding the processing time on task and on feedback in a challenging science test. Our results provide insight into students’ test-taking behavior when feedback is presented, indicating reduced TOT in feedback conditions for correct and incorrect answered items, while TOF after incorrect answers was particularly longer for AUC as compared to KCR. Further details will be discussed.

Authors

• Ute Mertens, Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education

• Marlit Annalena Lindner, IPN - Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education