Discipline-specific feedback literacies: A framework for curriculum design
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Discipline‑specific feedback literacies: A framework for curriculum design Naomi E. Winstone1 · Kieran Balloo1 · David Carless2 Accepted: 21 September 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
Abstract Feedback literacy is an important graduate attribute that supports students’ future work capacities. This study aimed to develop a framework through which discipline-specific feedback literacies, as a set of socially situated skills, can be developed within core curricula. The framework is developed through a content analysis of National Qualifications Frameworks from six countries and UK Subject Benchmark Statements for multiple disciplines, analysis of indicative subject content for a range of disciplines and consultation with subject-matter experts. Whilst most of the benchmark statements incorporate the development of feedback literacy skills related to ‘making judgements’, attributes relating to ‘appreciating feedback’ and ‘taking action based on feedback’ are less prevalent. Skills related to ‘managing the affective challenges of feedback’ are most prevalent in documentation for applied disciplines. The resulting empirically guided curriculum design framework showcases how integrating the development of discipline-specific feedback literacies can be enacted through authentic learning activities and assessment tasks. In terms of implications for practice, the framework represents in concrete terms how disciplinespecific feedback literacies can be integrated within higher education curricula. The findings also have implications for policy: by positioning discipline-specific feedback literacies as graduate outcomes, we believe they should be integrated within national qualifications frameworks as crucial skills to be developed through higher education courses. Finally, from a theoretical perspective, we advance conceptions of feedback literacy through a sociocultural approach and propose new directions for research that seek to reconceptualise a singular concept of feedback literacy as multiple feedback literacies that unfold in distinctive ways across disciplines. Keywords Feedback · Feedback literacy · Feedback literacies · Graduate outcomes · Curriculum
* Naomi E. Winstone [email protected] 1
Surrey Institute of Education, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, China
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Introduction A central aim of higher education is to prepare students for life beyond university. To this end, identifying key graduate attributes or outcomes is an important endeavour. For example, the capacity for graduates to work successfully in a team, to think critically and to communicate effectively orally and in writing are often identified as important graduate outcomes necessary for success in the workplace. In recognition of the variability in terminology used to represent graduate attributes or outcomes (Green et al. 2009), for current purposes, we use the term ‘graduate outcomes’ to represent the skills, dispositions and capacit
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