Exploring the Nature of Teacher’s Ongoing Feedback to Pupil using iPad

Abstract

Ongoing feedback from teacher to pupil during the instruction and interaction play an important role for pupil’s learning. In a mobile computer supported teaching environment, the assessment and feedback are often designed to be in a concise and simplified manner for ease of use and data recording. In this paper, we aim to understand the nature of the ongoing feedback in this setting. By employing principal component analysis on a three-semester period dataset, we found the ongoing feedback of the teachers to the pupils can be decomposed into assessment oriented component and encouragement oriented component. The teachers tended to use more assessment oriented feedback than encouragement oriented as they went through from semester 1 to semester 3.