ACAD-Feedback: Online Framework for Assignment, Collection, Analysis, and Distribution of Self, Peer, Instructor, and Group Feedback

Abstract

Working with peers is an integral part of a student’s educational experience in most disciplines from preschool to tertiary education. For secondary and undergraduate chemistry education, it is inevitable that some laboratory sessions require students to work in groups for logistic and safety reasons. In this technology report, we demonstrate use cases of Google Forms and Google Sheets to assign (A) students into groups, collect (C), analyze (A), and distribute (D) their feedback in group work as well as in self-, peer-, and instructor-assessed individual work. Our ACAD-Feedback framework is designed to streamline the manual delivery of the four processes into one online framework. This framework can be used in other settings with minimal modifications.