Feedback in Teaching
With the feedback policy, the University of Vienna wants to actively introduce its students to feedback as an academic practice and promote a communicative teaching/learning culture. Feedback brings a greater sense of achievement in studies, promotes active study behaviour and motivates students to participate in the academic discourse. Together with transparent performance requirements and differentiated assessments, feedback helps students to focus their actions more on achieving subject-related goals and to take responsibility for their own learning process.
The feedback policy with the principles for feedback and examples for the design of feedback can be found here, the video 'Why is feedback important' with Christa Schnabl, Vice-Rector for Educational Affairs, can be watched here (in German). For suggestions or if you would like advice, please contact ctl@univie.ac.at.
The CTL offers a wide range of support for the implementation of feedback in teaching:
Materials
Infopool better teaching
- Introduction: Teacher Feedback
- Feedback from teachers on written work
- Peer Review
- Feedback on written and oral exams
- Feedback on lectures and presentations
- Feedback on written work: outline and structure (video in German)
- Feedback on written work: perspective (video in German)
- Giving and receiving (peer) feedback (video series)
- Peer feedback as part of assessment (video in German) (video in German)
Award-winning practice
UNIVIE Teaching Award
- Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft: Jörg Matthes, Helena Knupfer Lehrveranstaltung: VERQUAN Vertiefende quantitative Methoden (in German)
- Anglistik und Amerikanistik: Sylvia Mieszkowski
Lehrveranstaltung: "Queer/Ing Film" (in German) - Biologie: Peter Lampert, Bernhard Müllner, Michael Kiehn, Erich Eder
Lehrveranstaltung: Interdisziplinäres Projektpraktikum LA-BU: Evolution und Ethik - Practise what you preach: Formative feedback in the classroom; Mag. Dr. Helen Heaney, BA and Mag. Dr. Armin Berger, MA
- Peer-Feedback als Prüfungsleistung; Dr. Donata Romizi, MA (in German)
- Schreibwerkstatt; ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Michaela Windischgrätz (in German)
Download
- Folder "Feedback geben - Entwicklung fördern" (in German)
- Feedback-Policy (in German)
- Feedback-Policy (in English)
Emergence of the Feedback Policy
The Feedback Policy was developed by a working group working group chaired by Christa Schnabl, Vice Rector for Studies and Teaching, and adopted by the Rectorate in 2017 after a discussion process at the faculties and centers. The reason for the intensive consideration of the feedback culture was the Quality Audit of the University of Vienna in 2015, whereby the certification of the quality assurance system by the Swiss Accreditation Council was linked to a requirement regarding examination culture and feedback procedures (feedback to students on their performance). The expert report with the condition can be found here.