Katherine Kauter

Queensland University of Technology

Author Statistics

Papers

Citation

H-Index

i-10 index

Research Trends

Author Order

Document Type

Co-Authors

Kerrie Unsworth

University of Leeds

Cooperative Institutions

University of Leeds

University of Western Australia

University of the West

Queensland University of Technology

University of Sheffield

Division of Human Resource Management

Author Statistics

Papers

Citation

H-Index

i-10 index

Research Field

Evaluating an earlybird scheme: encouraging early assignment writing and revising

Higher Education Research & Development (2007)

Kerrie Unsworth Katherine Kauter

Abstract It is widely suggested that feedback on assignments is useful to students’ learning, however, little research has examined how this feedback may be provided in large classes or the actual effects of such a scheme. We designed and implemented a voluntary ‘earlybird scheme’ that provided detailed feedback to undergraduate Business students on a first draft of a literature review. We then evaluated the effect of this scheme on students’ final marks for the assignment, the scheme’s usage, and students’ perceptions of the scheme. We found that although the usage of the scheme was quite low, it increased the learning of the students who did use it. The most common reason for not using the scheme was a lack of time and, therefore, given the beneficial nature of the scheme overall, we suggest that future implementations include greater structure or a complementary time‐management workshop. Keywords: assessmentfeedbackliterature reviews

Implementation

Classification scheme

10.1080/07294360701658773

Cite

Citations (11)