Teacher's Attitude into Different Approach to Providing Feedback to Students in Higher Education

Abstract

Feedback within higher education has an effective role in teaching staffs mode. The treatise on teachers' methods of feedback is represented to demonstrate how the novel feedback can help the academic staffs to provide an effective feedback for students in their assignments and written draft. The study investigates the academic staff's methods of feedback and their use the traditional pedagogy (Teacher written feedback) or the novel mode (online and peer feedback) at Salahaddin university in Erbil. The data of the study were collected quantitatively and qualitatively in order to reveal teachers pedagogy in the university and how they use methods of feedback in their teaching. The findings showed that some instructors use peer and online feedback (novel approach) which help students to be reflective and critical thinkers while most of them resort to teacher written feedback (old approach). Ultimately, the results shown that the academic staff may provide the novel feedback (online and peer feedback) to their teaching methods in the future. This will help students to be more proactive in learning.

Keywords: feedback, online and peer feedback, Teacher written feedback, formative and summative feedback.