Digital Feedback in the Research Planning Process
Peers, Pedagogies, and Technologies
1st Edition
Published on 5. August 2025
Book
420 pages
978-3-68952-309-1 (ISBN)
Description
The book "Digital Feedback in the Research Planning Process: Peers, Pedagogies, and Technologies" offers a comprehensive exploration of how iterative, dialogic peer review supports academic inquiry at Master's and doctoral levels. To capitalize on participants' heterogeneity, the pedagogical design integrates peer scaffolding within an inquiry-based, inverted classroom approach that is situated in an open, digitally mediated feedback environment. Drawing on empirical data from the TESOL Research Colloquium, this study investigates three asynchronous digital feedback formats - cloud-based digital boards, recorded audio(visual) files, and online forum exchanges - across successive phases of research planning, from topic generation to proposal presentation. The triangulation of student perceptions, feedback analyses, and course evaluations confirms the efficacy of the pedagogical design while highlighting the need for redefined roles of students and supervisors, targeted training in (pro)active feedback exchanges, and strategic tool selection based on communicative affordances. Rich with practical suggestions and transferable frameworks, this book equips teacher educators and researchers with actionable insights to promote student agency, peer learning, and the competent use of digital technologies - including Artificial Intelligence - in higher education
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Dr. Jennifer Schluer is Assistant Professor for TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)/ Advanced Academic English at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. She specializes in English language teacher education, focusing on digital teaching and digital feedback methods, academic writing and reading comprehension as well as language awareness, multilingualism and culture learning. In her PhD dissertation, she investigated Lexical and Conceptual Awareness in L2 Reading (Schluer, 2017). Furthermore, her textbook about Digital Feedback Methods was published in 2022, while the edited volume on Digital Feedback in Higher Education was released in 2024. In the same year, Dr. Schluer received the award for excellent teaching from her university. She is the creator of the interactive websites "Digital Feedback Map" and "Feedback Taxonomy", assisting (pre-service) teachers in the utilization of (digital) feedback in teaching. Currently, Dr. Schluer is preparing a monograph on Digital Feedback in the Research Planning Process as well as an edited volume on Foreign Language Learning and the Role of Language, Culture, and Literacy (co-editor: Dr. Madeleine Olson).