Feedback to the Future: A Pedagogic Algorithmic Approach to Curating and Delivering Impactful Feedback

Abstract

The Falmouth Formative Feedback (F³) Cycle is a Falmouth University created feedback model that has been created using a pedagogic algorithmic approach and is used to aid pedagogic decision making when an individual is planning and then delivering formative feedback, in any context.  Our feedback cycle emerged from collecting institutional practice across the 9 diverse industry-linked academic schools at Falmouth and represents a holistic, detailed and directed way to offer feedback to any learner.  This is particularly critical as learning and teaching practice changes post-pandemic but there will always remain a vital need for good quality feedback that allows learners to develop under any educational circumstance.  What the F³ Cycle therefore provides is a scaffolded and flexible way for learning and teaching practitioners to craft their feedback to the educational, personal, and professional needs of the learner whilst simultaneously encouraging professional development in those providing the feedback through use of different types, structures, and motivations of formative feedback so that positive impacts are the rule, rather than a by-product, of good feedback.

Keywords: Feedback, Feed Forward, Pedagogy

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-24-05

Publication date:August 31^st 2021