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Using an evidence-informed reflection tool to develop understandings of feedback talk
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Using an evidence-informed reflection tool to develop understandings of feedback talk

Emma Medland, Marion Heron, Kieran Balloo and Alina Syeda Husain
Teaching in higher education, Vol.30(5), pp.1190-1207
2025
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feedback talk evidence-based reflection reflection tool feedback literacy teacher professional development
Research-based and practical reflection tools can enable systematic analysis of practice and contribute to deeper understandings of classroom processes. An empirically based, evidence-informed reflection tool was developed to support teachers to recognise feedback talk and how it is built into classroom interactions. The tool, titled the feedback talk framework, enabled teachers to reflect on their feedback talk and effect changes in practice and feedback literacy. The feedback talk framework was refined through a survey and semi-structured interviews with teachers for use as a reflection tool and resulted in three overarching feedback talk themes: informing, confirming and validating, and questioning. Results illuminated how teachers used the tool to identify and reflect on feedback talk, strengthening our argument that using an empirically derived feedback talk framework can support evidence-based approaches to teacher reflection. Suggestions and implications for the utility of the reflection tool in a range of contexts are then provided.

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