Feedback Platform Research Articles

How does online peer feedback improve argumentative essay writing and learning?

ABSTRACT This study investigates the effects of unscripted, scripted and guided online peer feedback on students’ argumentative essay writing, argumentative feedback quality and domain-specific knowledge acquisition in the field of educational sciences. Participants were 52 students who were randomly divided over 26 dyads and randomly assigned to three conditions (unscripted, scripted and guided peer feedback conditions). An online peer feedback platform, named EduTech, was designed and these instructional supports were embedded within this platform. Students were asked to write an argumentative essay (individually), to engage in argumentative peer feedback with their learning partner (collaboratively), and finally to revise their essays based on feedback received (individually). The findings indicate that students in the scripted online peer feedback condition outperform the other two conditions in terms of argumentative essay writing, argumentative feedback quality and their domain-specific knowledge acquisition. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.

Comparing psychiatric care experiences shared online with validated questionnaires; do they include the same content?

Patient feedback is considered integral to patient safety and quality of care. However, limited research has compared the content of validated questionnaires with subjective patient experiences shared online. The aim of this study was to therefore identify and compare the content of psychiatric care experiences shared online with validated questionnaires. All research was conducted in co-production with a volunteer mental-health-patient-research-partner. We analysed all reviews published on the United Kingdom’s leading health and social care feedback platform Care Opinion, between 2005-2017 that discussed adult psychiatric care and compared findings with two validated questionnaires (ACP360 and General Medical Council patient feedback questionnaire). Our research findings show that patients describe some different measures of psychiatric care quality online and use different terminology to those used in validated questionnaires. Psychiatric care was also rarely discussed in relation to an individual psychiatrist alone. Multiple interactions affect patient experience and perceived care quality. Further work is needed to incorporate patient perceptions and terminology of care quality into patient feedback questionnaires and surveys. This may best be achieved through co-design although exploration of this approach is required. The current focus of patient feedback in revalidation is of limited value as patients do not typically disaggregate the care provided by an individual clinician from the wider healthcare team, system or environment. Although focused on psychiatry, research findings have clear implications for those looking to facilitate quality improvement and professional development.

Transforming rural housing land to farmland in Chongqing, China: The land coupon approach and farmers’ complaints

Rapid urbanization in China since 1978 has created enormous pressure on farmland, which is encroached by not only urban expansion but also rural construction of peasant housing and services. As a land-use planning and management response, the Central Government endorsed a policy that bundles the reduction of rural construction land with the increase of urban built-up area, thus making it possible to connect the two seemingly contradictory processes between adding on to and taking off from the farmland bank by reclamation of rural construction sites and urban expansion respectively. This paper contributes to an emerging literature on the study of transformation of rural construction land by examining the land coupon approach and the associated complaints from the participating farmers in Chongqing, China. Data are collected from a government online feedback platform, supplemented by public policy documents. The findings reveal that the land coupon approach is a kaleidoscope that demonstrates a wide range of players in the farmland reclamation process. Farmers go through a lengthy and complicated process shaped by historical inconsistencies of policies, rent-seeking individuals and organizations, and market uncertainties. Their complaints focused on tangible issues especially on compensation payment, but intangible issues such as local and national policy intentions were totally ignored. Farmland reclamation is set to create landless farmers with poor social and financial security, which deserves attention in rethinking the land policies.

Patient Satisfaction with Mobile Health (mHealth) Application for Exercise Intervention in Breast Cancer Survivors

This study aimed to assess user satisfaction with mobile health (mHealth) application in breast cancer survivors after a 12-week exercise program and provide developers with reference points for mHealth applications from the perspective of patients and physicians. This is a retrospective review of prospectively collected multicenter data of 88 breast cancer survivors who carried out a 12-week exercise program via smartphone application with pedometer. Personalized programs including aerobic and resistance exercise were prescribed by physiatrists. Also, telephone counseling was performed at the 3rd and 9th week. All patients completed the user satisfaction questionnaire at the end of the intervention. The mean achievement rates of aerobic and resistance exercise for 12weeks were 78.8 and 71.3%, respectively. The mean score of overall satisfaction rated on the 5-point Likert scale was 4.22 ± 0.73. When the patients were grouped according to age, the overall satisfaction score increased significantly with age (P = 0.040). Also, the satisfaction scores of patients with radiotherapy were significantly higher than patients without radiotherapy (P = 0.001). In terms of system characteristics, the most satisfying was data transmission accuracy (4.32 ± 0.74). In addition, patients were very satisfied with telephone counseling (4.55 ± 0.62). The results suggest the direction of mHealth should go to meet the detailed requirements of the specific user group as a more targeted approach. In addition, if a mutual feedback platform can be implanted in mHealth applications, it will increase user loyalty and make mHealth a more available motivational technology in our lives.

Evidence-Based Research in STEM Teacher Education: From Theory to Practice

The paper identifies a possible cause of previous STEM education reform failures and suggests how repairing the link between evidence-based education research and teacher education practice may be a potential solution. The evidence-based STEM education research is described and placed in the general education research context to illustrate how research-based and STEM-focused teacher education can address some of the biggest challenges facing contemporary educators: the growing student disengagement, the paucity of successful active learning environments, the inadequate attention to educating and supporting teachers, the scarcity of evidence-based research on student STEM learning that can inform both teacher education practice and policy. The paper calls on placing research-based STEM teacher education in the centre of contemporary reform efforts and conducting evidence-based education research to study the effects of this process on the growth of teacher knowledge and consequently on student STEM learning. Specifically, using research-based evidence for the development of teachers’ knowledge for STEM teaching and their positive attitudes about learning (the growth mindset) are identified as possible key factors in successful STEM education reform efforts. However, more research needs to be done to examine this assertion. To do so, we suggest a four-step approach for incorporating evidence-based STEM education research into teacher education practice: Model-Reflect-Research-Practice. This approach emphasizes teacher-candidates’ active engagement with research-based pedagogies as students and as future teachers. It provides a structure for incorporating research-based pedagogies in STEM teacher education as described in the examples. The first example showcases Peer Instruction supported by PeerWise technology to engage teacher-candidates in designing STEM learning environments that promote active learning and conceptual understanding through peer learning. The second example focuses on supporting teacher-candidates’ growth by asking them to teach short mini-lessons, record and upload them onto the online collaborative platform (Collaborative Learning Annotation System) for peer feedback and reflection. Both examples incorporate collaborative educational technologies to promote the development of teacher-candidates’ knowledge and their growth mindset. The paper emphasizes how making evidence-based STEM education research a foundation of teacher education can help connect education research to teaching practice and break the vicious circle of STEM education reform failures.

A Customer Feedback Platform for Vehicle Manufacturing Compliant with Industry 4.0 Vision.

In the last decade, the growth of the automotive market with the aid of technologies has been notable for the economic, automotive and technological sectors. Alongside this growing recognition, the so called Internet of Intelligent Vehicles (IoIV) emerges as an evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) applied to the automotive sector. Closely related to IoIV, emerges the concept of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which is the current revolution seen in industrial automation. IIoT, in its turn, relates to the concept of Industry 4.0, that is used to represent the current Industrial Revolution. This revolution, however, involves different areas: from manufacturing to healthcare. The Industry 4.0 can create value during the entire product lifecycle, promoting customer feedback, that is, having information about the product history throughout it is life. In this way, the automatic communication between vehicle and factory was facilitated, allowing the accomplishment of different analysis regarding vehicles, such as the identification of a behavioral pattern through historical driver usage, fuel consumption, maintenance indicators, so on. Thus, allowing the prevention of critical issues and undesired behaviors, since the automakers lose contact with the vehicle after the purchase. Therefore, this paper aims to propose a customer feedback platform for vehicle manufacturing in Industry 4.0 context, capable of collecting and analyzing, through an OBD-II (On-Board Diagnostics) scanner, the sensors available by vehicles, with the purpose of assisting in the management, prevention, and mitigation of different vehicular problems. An intercontinental evaluation conducted between Brazil and Italy locations shown the feasibility of platform and the potential to use in order to improve the vehicle manufacturing process.

Not Just Listening to the Teacher's Voice: A Case Study of a University English Teacher's Use of Audio Feedback on Social Media in China

A teacher’s feedback is one of the most important aspects of student learning. Although feedback can arguably move students from their current level to their desired goals, students in higher education rate it as one of the least satisfactory areas partly because of the unidirectional nature of written feedback. This paper contains a case study of a university English teacher’s use of audio feedback on a popular social media platform in China. This study includes an analysis of the teacher’s audio feedback and follow-up interactions with students on the popular WeChat application, teacher interviews, student reflective journals and 10 classroom observations of student presentations. The study found that many features of the teacher’s audio feedback contributed to student learning. Findings also reveal how the instructor’s audio feedback on social media created opportunities for dialogic feedback by increasing student engagement with the comments and enhancing meaning negotiation, as well as how the teacher and students perceive the use of audio feedback. These findings are discussed in terms of creating dialogical feedback contexts for student learning, incorporating use of audio feedback into teacher assessment literacy, and utilizing social media as an innovative platform for audio feedback. It concludes with implications for feedback practice in higher education and teacher assessment education.

Introns provide a platform for intergenic regulatory feedback of RPL22 paralogs in yeast.

Ribosomal protein genes (RPGs) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae are a remarkable regulatory group that may serve as a model for understanding genetic redundancy in evolutionary adaptations. Most RPGs exist as pairs of highly conserved functional paralogs with divergent untranslated regions and introns. We examined the roles of introns in strains with various combinations of intron and gene deletions in RPL22, RPL2, RPL16, RPL37, RPL17, RPS0, and RPS18 paralog pairs. We found that introns inhibited the expression of their genes in the RPL22 pair, with the RPL22B intron conferring a much stronger effect. While the WT RPL22A/RPL22B mRNA ratio was 93/7, the rpl22aΔi/RPL22B and RPL22A/rpl22bΔi ratios were >99/<1 and 60/40, respectively. The intron in RPL2A stimulated the expression of its own gene, but the removal of the other introns had little effect on expression of the corresponding gene pair. Rpl22 protein abundances corresponded to changes in mRNAs.Using splicing reporters containing endogenous intron sequences, we demonstrated that these effects were due to the inhibition of splicing by Rpl22 proteins but not by their RNA-binding mutant versions. Indeed, only WT Rpl22A/Rpl22B proteins (but not the mutants) interacted in a yeast three-hybrid system with an RPL22B intronic region between bp 165 and 236. Transcriptome analysis showed that both the total level of Rpl22 and the A/B ratio were important for maintaining the WT phenotype. The data presented here support the contention that the Rpl22B protein has a paralog-specific role.The RPL22 singleton of Kluyveromyces lactis, which did not undergo whole genome duplication, also responded to Rpl22-mediated inhibition in K. lactis cells. Vice versa, the overproduction of the K. lactis protein reduced the expression of RPL22A/B in S. cerevisiae. The extraribosomal function of of the K. lactis Rpl22 suggests that the loop regulating RPL22 paralogs of S. cerevisiae evolved from autoregulation.

367 CFHealthHub: iterative co-production of a data feedback platform providing patient level adherence data to multi-disciplinary teams to optimise individual care and centre level adherence data to centre directors allowing benchmarking to enable centre level quality improvement cycles in a 3 centre improvement collaborative

367 CFHealthHub: iterative co-production of a data feedback platform providing patient level adherence data to multi-disciplinary teams to optimise individual care and centre level adherence data to centre directors allowing benchmarking to enable centre level quality improvement cycles in a 3 centre improvement collaborative

THE JOINT INFLUENCE OF ETHICAL HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICE, ETHICAL INVESTOR RELATIONS, ETHICAL CONSUMER RELATIONS AND ETHICAL ADVERTISING ON THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF LISTED FIRMS IN KENYA.

Purpose: The general objective of this study was to establish the joint influence of ethical human resource practice, ethical investor relations, ethical consumer relations and ethical advertising on the financial performance of listed firms in Kenya.Methodology: Primary data was collected through a semi-structured questionnaire. Secondary data was collected from both the listed firms in the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), and information from the sector regulator, the Capital Markets Authority (CMA). The target population of this study was 64 companies listed in the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) with consistency being evaluated between the years 2011 to 2015. Data analysis was done using the Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS).Results: The study did a joint regression test for the combined effects of ethical human resource practices, ethical advertising practices, ethical consumer practices and ethical relation practices. In the regression, it was established that, acting jointly, these practices have a positive relationship with the financial performance of listed firms.Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: This study recommends that listed firms need to religiously adhere to conducts of ethical leadership. The departments of human resource should at all times implement their human resource policies with great caution as their mandates, as outlined in the HR policy, influence their organizational performance. The marketing departments should uphold zero tolerance to unethical advertising practices. Also, a feedback platform needs to be included in all advertisements so that profitability is achieved. To the consumers, quality is of priority. Listed firms should formulate ways of always adhering to provision of quality services to consumers. On ethical investor relations, there is need to involve truthful disclosure of information, especially regarding financial statements of the firms. Truthful disclosure of information will uphold investor trust, and subsequently inject more incentives (majorly in the form of financial) for the benefit of the firms. Overally, the study recommends that, by practicing ethical leadership, the firms’ financial performance will greatly improve. The study also suggested that ethical leadership practices should be replicated in non-listed firms and in government agencies.

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This study explored critical peer feedback with critical thinking to improve Business English writing. Higher-order thinking skills in peer feedback is conducted to facilitate higher-level writing. This study focuses on the participants’ mechanism of critical peer feedback, Qzone blog for critical peer feedback, and issues in critical peer feedback. A qualitative case study is conducted with six Chinese undergraduates. Three kinds of data including semi-structured interviews, Business English writing assignments and artifacts of critical peer feedback, are analyzed by QSR Nvivo 8. The findings reveal that critical peer feedback is a strategy of higher-order peer feedback to improve the higher-level writing. The Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is accepted for critical peer feedback. Critical peer feedback improves the quality of peer feedback and the quality of Business English writing. Qzone blog is a convenient ICT platform for critical peer feedback with many strengths. However, six issues are also perceived in the practice of critical peer feedback. The finding is significant to the process of critical peer feedback in second language writing. DOI: http://doi.org/10.17576/gema-2017-1701-03

Technology-enhanced feedback for pupils and parents in Finnish basic education

Information and communication technology, ICT, permits various new modes of parent-teacher collaboration. In Finland, online ICT-based platforms are used in most municipalities for giving feedback to pupils and parents. Despite the importance of parent-teacher collaboration and its emphasis in the Finnish Core Curriculum, there are substantial obstacles for successful collaboration. Indeed, there is some variation in how ICT-based platforms are used, and concerns have been expressed in regarding the potential harmful effects of cumulative negative feedback some pupils seem to receive. However, no systematic analyses have been conducted regarding the nature and the accumulation of feedback using any of the available platforms in Finland. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explore how technology-enhanced feedback is utilised in Finnish schools and to determine what kind of feedback pupils and parents receive from their teachers using such ICT-based platforms. To arrive at the conclusions, the entire set of online communication registered in the most common feedback platform in one middle-sized municipality during one school year was analysed. Altogether, 704 teachers provided feedback for 7811 pupils in 211,003 separate actions during school year 2014–2015. The results show that first, both positive and negative feedback is given using the tool; second, boys receive more negative feedback than girls; and third, feedback is distributed unevenly among students so that negative feedback is concentrated to a relatively small number of pupils. Whereas the first two results confirm earlier knowledge, the third finding provides new insights into negative feedback accumulation. The results indicate that more specific guidelines for technology-enhanced feedback is needed to avoid unequal treatment of pupils and to prevent harmful effects of constant negative feedback from emerging.

Online Features of Qzone Weblog for Critical Peer Feedback to Facilitate Business English Writing

Qzone weblog is one of the most popular weblogs in China. This study explores Qzone weblog for critical peer feedback to facilitate Business English writing among the Chinese undergraduates. A qualitative case study is conducted by NVivo 8 to analyze the three research data of semistructured interviews, Business English writing assignments, and critical peer feedback artifacts. Three research questions are focused on the case participants’ perception of this study, the strength and weakness of Qzone for critical peer feedback, and online features of Qzone affecting critical peer feedback in Business English writing. The findings indicate that Qzone weblog is a convenient information communication technology platform for online critical peer feedback among the Chinese undergraduates. The six aspects of strength and five online features are coded by NVivo 8, which are models by NVivo 8 with figures. The weakness of Qzone is the character number limitation for blogging and feedback. The conclusion of this study will be applied for the use of Qzone weblog and other kinds of weblog for online peer feedback in English writing.

Integrating multimedia and LMS tools to cultivate creative and reflective learners.

The challenge for an instructor, no matter the delivery system, is to inspire students towards creative thinking. Online asynchronous and hybrid courses provide a unique opportunity for instructors to harness mobile multimedia tools such as tablets, and smart phones coupled with Learning Management System (LMS) tools to enhance instructor presence as well as student engagement in the creative process through real-time collaboration and feedback.In this 40-minute “how to” presentation, attendees will be reintroduced to multimedia tools readily available to them like smart phone and tablets along with inexpensive presentation tools such as Camtasia to make engaging presentations. Using Distance Education courses in media criticism and online journalism, the presenter will demonstrate a few tips and tricks to improve image and sound quality. In addition to utilizing lecture presentations, attendees will learn how to integrate multimedia into announcements as well as in “instructional” videos on how to think and write creatively and make presentations using video blogs.Finally, the presentation will explore student-teacher collaboration tools such as Blackboard Collaborate Ultra and Video Blogging via Kaltura CaptureSpace. Furthermore, Blue Pulse – a unique social feedback platform will be discussed as it relates to designing engaging content.

Informed consent for paediatric clinical trials in Europe

ObjectivePaediatric clinical trials are often conducted as multinational trials. Informed consent or assent is part of the ethics committee approval for clinical trials. The consent requirements vary between countries due...

Comparing and Combining Measurement-Based and Driven-Dissipative Entanglement Stabilization

We demonstrate and contrast two approaches to the stabilization of qubit entanglement by feedback. Our demonstration is built on a feedback platform consisting of two superconducting qubits coupled to a cavity which are measured by a nearly-quantum-limited measurement chain and controlled by high-speed classical logic circuits. This platform is used to stabilize entanglement by two nominally distinct schemes: a "passive" reservoir engineering method and an "active" correction based on conditional parity measurements. In view of the instrumental roles that these two feedback paradigms play in quantum error-correction and quantum control, we directly compare them on the same experimental setup. Further, we show that a second layer of feedback can be added to each of these schemes, which heralds the presence of a high-fidelity entangled state in realtime. This "nested" feedback brings about a marked entanglement fidelity improvement without sacrificing success probability.

Consumer Behavior Analysis through Network captures using Big Data

For any business it is crucial to listen its target audience, understand market trends and must possess the ability to predict the future of the business. But understanding the mindset of the consumer has always been challenging for the businesses. Hence to understand the requirement of its customers and market trends, companies are investing to develop a feedback platform which can help them to listen and understand their specific customer needs. In this paper we are trying to propose a design of strategy and decision making platform which can help telecom companies to zoom into the consumer needs, in making futuristic strategies and recommending tailor-made offerings to the user.

Progress on Fabric Electrodes Used in ECG Signals Monitoring

Wearable monitoring system is designed for skin stimulation of conductive adhesive, prolonged physiological monitoring and biocompatibility, whose core is fabric electrodes and it can feedback physiological status by analysis of abnormal electrocardiogram (ECG). Fabric electrode is a sensor to collect biological signals based on textile materials including signals acquisition, processing systems and information feedback platform and so on. In this paper, the design methods and classification of medical electrodes would be introduced. It also sorted out the principle of biological electrical signals, the design methods and characteristics of different material and different structure electrodes from the point of dry electrodes and wet electrodes. There are many methods that can be used to prepare fabric electrodes. They are mainly metal plating, conductive polymer coating, magnetron sputtering, gas phase deposition and impregnation. Besides, they select the appropriate substrate, conductive medium and composite way to get light fabric electrodes which have high conductivity, good conformability. From the perspective of biological signal acquisition by fabric electrodes, this paper also sorted out the influence and approaches of biological signals and the way to feedback the physiological condition of human. As a new generation of bio-signal acquisition material, fabric electrode has met the requirements of the development of modern medicine. Fabric electrode is different from traditional conductive materials in the characteristics of comfort, intelligence, convenience, accuracy and so on.

Neurophysiological Markers of Stress within a Recovery Period after Acute Complications of Cardiovascular Diseases

In the course of rehabilitation in a sanatorium, we provided polygraphic examination of a group of 14 men who endured myocardial infarction or stroke one to three months ago. Fourteen men of a comparable age (55 years, on average), healthy from the aspect of diseases of the cardiovascular system, served as the control group. Examination was performed using a flexible data acquisition and feedback platform «Nexus-10 Mark II» (the Netherlands) allowing us to simultaneously record ECG, EMG, EEG, respiratory movements, pulse blood filling, skin temperature, electrodermal resistance, and a few other indices. It was found that patients suffering from complications of pathologies of the cardiovascular system were characterized by a significant increase in the electrodermal conductivity, clearly expressed tachypnea, and some trends toward tachycardia and decrease in the skin temperature. According to indices of the heart rate variability (HRV), the mean value of the Bayevskii stress index in patients was about three times higher than the analogous value in the control group, while the total power of the HRV spectrum was dramatically lower. The amplitude of tonic EMG activity recorded from mm. trapezii in the resting state considerably exceeded the respective value in control subjects. The amplitude of 8-13 Hz EEG oscillations in the Cz lead in patients was somewhat lower than in the control group, and increase in this index in the test with closing of the eyes in these subjects was manifested much slightly than in the control. Parallel recording of physiological (first of all, neurophysiological) indices allows researchers to effectively identify objective markers of the stress state developed after complications of diseases of the cardiovascular system; the respective data can be used in the curative procedures with the control of functions of the organism using a feedback technology by the parameters of activity of the functional systems (biofeedback control).

Augmented Reality for Improving Catheterization in Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Cardiac Electrophysiology Therapy1

Augmented Reality for Improving Catheterization in Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Cardiac Electrophysiology Therapy1