What do you like best about FeedbackFruits Tool Suite?
I use FbF in during my courses in the 'Medicine' curriculum.
I let students first upload an assessment in groups, and let them individually review each other's assessments. It proves to be an excellent tool for:
- Examining what they find difficult, and whether their reviews are in line with my thoughts
- I can respond better in the response-lecture afterwards, since FbF provide me with meta-data on the group. I can 'zoom-in' on this data, and provide better feedback to the students based on this meta-data.
- Reducing the workload for me as a teacher, since all the uploaded assessments are automatically distributed (anonymously) to other students for the reviewing part.
- You can easily use last-year's assessment and use it again for next year's course (or even another course)
- Most importantly: by letting the students review their colleague's answer, they do not only learn to apply their knowledge, but also evaluate the answer's of others, and thereby FbF raises the bar/level in which they learn about the specific topic. Students themselves also responded that it improved their knowledge, and also evaluated this assessment as a valuable and efficient way to learn about the topic and prepare for the examination
Nice to know: since I introduced this assessment (this year for the 2nd time), the average grade of the final examination has increased with 1-1.5 full points (on a 1-10 scale), which is huge, concerning the fact that this is a small assessment in a complete 6+ week course. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about FeedbackFruits Tool Suite?
In the beginning, implementing FbF seems to increase the workload, since you need to invest on a new digital tool/platform, and need to setup the assessment, make sure all settings are ok, and provide good feedback-options (e.g. rubrics). This 'investment' however, may seem a bit of a barrier, but I am glad I took the time to dive into this and have this assessment now ready for upcoming years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.