Feedback Evaluation

What causes the lack of academic engagement between students and professors? Who is responsible to improve the academic engagement; students or professors? We all have experienced a class that doesn't grab our attention or interest. However, as students, we intend to do the minimum work to pass the course. "Professors have ceased to expect genuine engagement from students and often give good grades (B or better) to work that is at minimally adequate."

Community colleges require some students to take remedial classes due to low standardized test scores; however, this requirement harms undergraduates more than it benefits them. Remedial classes are non-credit courses, which means that the students being forced to take them are not receiving any credit for their work. Ironically, undergraduates must pay for courses that may not even be necessary. In “Revamping Community Colleges to Improve Graduation Rates,” Alina Tugend (2016) states, “Four years of data have shown that those who were placed in the higher-level classes ‘were succeeding just as well as those who had to go through development,’ Mr. Oakley said” (para. 17).

Again, procrastination is one reason why students fail to do work. Grades are said to drive students to push themselves even more, yet it is not entirely true. Some students cheat, causing their grades to fly high, and that doesn’t reflect wit at all. In a survey of 24,000 students at 70 high schools, Donald McCabe (Rutgers University) found that 64 percent of students admitted to cheating on a test, 58 percent for plagiarism, and 95 percent for some other form of cheating. (Facts) This proves that grades are more likely to cause students to cheat than to motivate

The university used a variety of data sources including NSSE, the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), and student records that illustrated the needs for improvement. These problems were affecting persistence, graduation rates, and student success. First, from the 2004 NSSE administration, students reported poor academic engagement amongst undergraduate students. More than half of the first-year students reported spending less than 10 hours per week preparing for class. Over 75% of student respondents went to class without completing assignments and

(2010) states that while there are some positive attributes to standardised testing such as improving test scores, encouraging higher-level thinking and providing feedback to students, there are also a number of negative effects. These negative effects involve narrowing of the curriculum so that the focus is mainly on test content causing teachers assessments to become more summative rather than formative, incresed stress and anxiety on students and incresed dropout rates amoung lower achieving students. While this form of ‘achievement’ test can have very negative effects on students in lower secondary education, Moss (2012) suggests that older students in secondary education respond positively to summative assessments as they are able to learn during the assessment process and they also find the work motivating. It appears that the main issue with standarised testing lies within lower secondary education and the impact it has on students not just within the classroom and nationally but also

And in another study did by Wolters et al., (1996) endorsement of performance goal orientation positively predicted students’ task value, self-efficacy, and cognitive and self-regulatory strategy use. Often, performance goals orientation has been associated with a maladaptive pattern of cognition, affect, and behavior (Review on Ames, 1992; Dweck & Leggett, 1988). However, unlike the researches concerning mastery goals, research concerning performance goals are

Students alone can 't dispose of it all alone. All in all, what are a few techniques that the school can apply to dispense with this involvement in an understudy 's scholarly life? As per Skinner and Belmont (1993), understudies will stay persuaded in the classroom if their mental needs are met. Skinner and Belmont (1993) claim that understudies are fulfilled when the accompanying instructor conduct classifications are available: (1) structure, (2) self-governance, and (3) association. Structure alludes to how the class or environment is organized or controlled by the instructor.

Failure usually leads to three kinds of reactions in choosing of goals: a) Avoiding the situation which has led to failure - As we have seen, those who do poorly in school dropout much more often than those who are successful. b) Lowering the aspiration level - The student who has aspired for A’s but gotten C’s learns from experience to accept C’s, becomes pleasantly surprised by an occasional, and no longer expects an A. c) Maintaining levels of aspiration inconsistent with failure - Raining the goals or keeping them the same. Here we have students who do only fair work in their course but have high vocational ambitions. Aware that many colleagues do better work than they, they still aspire to professions which require a high standard of school success which they simply cannot

As an example a study completed by Allen and Madden (2008) found that, 31% of the 9,067 college respondents reported that being the victim of hazing caused them to feel more like a member of the group, whereas only 11% of respondents indicated that it made them feel stressed. Moreover, in the same study, 22% reported a sense of accomplishment, 18% felt strong, and 15% reported doing better in class. Alternately, the perceived negative effects of hazing were minimal. For example, only 4% of students indicated they felt guilty and 2% reported feeling like they were in danger (Allan & Madden, 2008). Moreover, students involved in fraternities and sororities expressed a more favorable impression of hazing than their college counterparts did; they viewed hazing as more fun and less harmful than students not involved (Campo et al., 2005).

In fact, about one third of the total studies reviewed in two landmark meta-analyses (Bangert-Drowns et al.,1991; Kluger & DeNisi, 1996) demonstrated negative effects of feedback on learning. For instance, feedback that is construed as critical and controlling (Baron, 1993) often impedes efforts to improve performance (Fedor, Davis, Maslyn, & Mathieson, 2001). Other features of feedback that tend to hamper learning include providing grades or overall scores indicating the students’ standing relative to peers and coupling such normative feedback with low levels of specificity (Kluger & DeNisi, 1998), Additionally, interrupting a student who is actively engaged in problem solving with feedback from an external source has also been shown to inhibit learning (Corno & Snow, 1986). In regards to the various definitions stated in this review, feedback that has negative effects on learning is not quite definite or