Dive Brief:
- An analysis of the effect of professor video feedback on students shows that students find videos to be more honest and authentic than written comments from their professors.
- The paper by Michael Henderson and Michael Phillips, professors at Monash University in Australia, analyzes a survey of 126 students — plus the students’ notes.
- Henderson finds that his own five-minute unedited video comments for each of his students takes less time than red-pen comments on their papers, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
Dive Insight:
The paper is planned for publication in the peer-reviewed Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. Among the drawbacks of video comments: difficulty matching critiques to specific lines in a student’s paper, relative to written comments physically penned on the paper, and an anxiousness felt by students from having their professors look them in the eye when taping the video. Also, professors may experience performance anxiety.