Objectively this essay aims to provide detailed information about student’s viewpoints on assessment feedback. The research more generally focuses on gender with the aim being to find out if ‘girls use their feedback more effectively than boys’ during assessments. The essay will start by looking at similar writings based on feedback assessments and seeing if the research fits into the current work and debates of gender and education. Next I will discuss what methods were used to conduct the survey and research, looking at the strengths and weaknesses of this and the methods used. Finally analysing the results of the survey and look into how these fit into existing knowledge and debates.
There has been a vast amount of studies on gender and
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This is beneficial for our research as we could gather information from other university student’s outside of Nottingham University, widening our data. Although the surveys can be distributed in a “time efficient manner” (Evans and Mathur, 2005) using a web based survey can create a “lack of representativeness” (Evans and Mathur, 2005) as you can never be sure that the respondent completing your survey fits the criteria you set out as it is anonymous and completed from behind a …show more content…
Learning that although there are many benefits to the web based survey method it does have its disadvantages. However for this research it was a dependable method to gain data about student’s opinions on assessment feedback. Albeit for this study to further help the gender education debate I would encourage more in-depth data to be gained. Through a process such as an unstructured interview, this would progress the study and gain more information about the gender gap within education.
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