ABSTRACT

This chapter describes the simple algorithmic representation of the systematisation. It illustrates the process of transforming feedback data into revisions. The simple algorithm illustrates a partially systematic procedure for analysing the potentially large amount of data generated by the integrated feedback system. Responses to open-ended feedback questions may reflect a wide range of problems encountered by the students, perhaps with contradictory suggestions or implications for revision. Content analysis of such open-ended data to identify the crucial points made by students is time-consuming and requires considerable skill. Three brief examples illustrate the systematic analysis of student feedback using the data-processing algorithm and a few of the different types of revision which may result. They also point to a possible way of classifying revisions: add an optional learning route; delete an objective; move a section of teaching to another point in the text; and modify an explanation.