Help students (and yourself) gain more agency in the feedback process

Mila van Dorst & Claudia Tielemans

Feedback agency - the ability to influence your learning environment by the way you ask for, understand and use feedback - helps students learn more easily, effectively and enjoyably. In this workshop, you will slip into the role of student (teacher) and get to work with a practical tool that helps you ask for and understand feedback in an effective way. We make forays into recent literature on: asking for feedback by Renske de Kleijn (2023), feedback dialogues by Claudia Tielemans (2023), and internal feedback by David Nicol (2021). You will learn how to use these processes in your own teaching to give your students (and yourself) more feedback agency. 

Biography

Mila van Dorst, PhD student at UMC Utrecht, has a background as an ANIOS paediatrics and has been working for 2 years on a PhD research project on workplace learning of medical students. In it, she investigates what students need to make optimal use of the learning opportunities - formal and informal - they encounter in the busy and unpredictable medical workplace.

Claudia Tielemans, Postdoc researcher at UMC Utrecht, has a background as a primary care physician and recently completed her PhD research on interprofessional feedback dialogues in healthcare. She is currently working on teaching and research on interprofessional (workplace) learning, and on developing and evaluating methods to support teacher development based on feedback interactions.