Project description

Formative feedback can be regarded as a crucial scaffold to foster students' writing cohesive argumentative texts. However, students rarely receive feedback on their writing. Thus, computer-based feedback can be regarded as an alternative to provide formative feedback to students. The main purpose of this project was to investigate how computer-based feedback should be designed to optimally support students’ writing.

We developed a computer-based graphical feedback tool to enhance students’ writing. We conducted experimental studies to investigate how computer-based feedback should be designed to help students write cohesive texts. Furthermore, we examined potential synergy and interaction effects of computer-based feedback with other instructional methods such as informed strategy trainings, prompts, or peer-feedback. Based on these findings, we aimed to develop and evaluate an entire media-based teaching unit for argumentative writing.

Cooperations

Christian Burkhart, University of Freiburg

Prof. Dr. Matthias Nückles, University of Freiburg