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Principles of Good Feedback

Good Feedback:

1. facilitates the development of self-assessment in learning;

2. encourages teacher and peer dialogue around learning, and helps to clarify what good
performance is;

3. delivers high quality information to students about their learning, and encourages
positive motivational beliefs and self-esteem;

4. provides an opportunity to close the gap between current and desired performance;
and,

5. provides information to teachers that can be used to help shape their teaching and
feedback (Griffiths, 2016).

Ethical Considerations

Students should be encouraged to adhere to ethical practices in completing their SBA.
Considerations include:

1. Avoiding plagiarism such as submitting another person’s work as their own and failing
to acknowledge intellectual property;

2. Practising ethical procedures in conducting their research including getting consent,
avoiding fabricating results or misrepresenting information and ensuring
confidentiality; and,

3. Crediting the work of others in text as well as in the reference.

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