Student Feedback or ‘Students Hit Back’: in Search of Quality Feedback for Quality Teaching

Abdel Rahman Abdalla Salih

Abstract


Universities and colleges often administer student feedback surveys on teaching to elicit students’ views of how a particular course is taught and learned in order to improve teaching quality by helping tutors increase opportunities for better learning. This paper reports the views of (40) English teachers and (124) General Foundation Programme (GFP) students on student feedback in institutions of higher education in the Sultanate of Oman, and the implications of such perceptions on the quality of teaching and learning English language. Findings reveal variation in the views held by both teachers and students about student feedback on teaching and learning experience. The study confirms the need for consistency between the perceptions of teachers and students on student feedback, and for training students on quality feedback and reflective learning.

 


Keywords


Quality assurance, student feedback, teacher response, quality teaching, transformative reflection, teacher perception

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7575/ijalel.v.1n.7p.90

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