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teachers' dedication and makes it hard to be implemented generally in groups of 70 students with the
current contractual relationship of dedication.
These conclusions must be compatible with the fact that students judge very positively the
personalized feedback and has a facilitating as well as motivating effect on learning. Nevertheless,
according to what the teacher suggests, the most important element is what is said rather than the
tool that is used to say it.
On the other hand, in order for this feedback to be implemented by teachers, a technical training on
communication and pedagogy is needed. This personalization requires additional dedication and new
ways to correct PACs that make it difficult to be extrapolated to a 70-student classroom-group,
particularly taking into account that the longer this personalized feedback takes place, the more
demanding students become and the teacher-student interaction increases.
Finally, from this study several lines of future investigation arise. Data analysis regarding academic
performance between pilot classrooms and monitoring classrooms is a key element to be valued
when considering that the academic performance of the over effort that personalized feedback
means. In this sense, it must also be considered, when assessing its possible spreading to the rest of
subjects within the context, whether or not different types of subjects correspond to different types of
feedback.
Acknowledgements
This article is the result of a collective work resulting from the project “TOWARDS AN
IMPROVEMENT OF THE E-FEEDBACK”, funded by AGAUR (Catalan Goverment), leaded by María
Jesús Martínez Argüelles (2010MQD00145), We are grateful to the work done by the rest of members
of the project: Marc Badia-Miró, Carolina Hintzmann, Dolors Plana-Erta, Muriel Garreta Domingo,
David Trelles Bertran and Antoni Mangas. We also want to thank the collaboration of Anna Espasa
Roca when improving the methodological work around feedback. Lastly, we want to thank the
economic support given by the Economy and Business Department of the Universitat Oberta de
Catalunya.
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