Feedback supporting deep and strategic approaches to learning and studying: A case study on production cost

Abstract

Feedback has one of the highest effects on learning. To benefit from its use, it should provide information important to students. This information may support activities applied in deep and strategic approaches to learning and studying. Bearing in mind that the production of quality feedback can be a costly enterprise, this paper examines the actual implementation cost of feedback techniques that provide such information. Although this cost may appear high at first sight, it becomes (much) lower if the developer task is consider as a “fill in a form” task because only modest extra work beyond the typical is needed. An example how this task might be done is included.