Investigating shareable feedback tags for programming assignments

This article presents an investigation into the usage of shareable feedback tags as a way of delivering feedback to three different cohorts of programming students. A series of research questions are examined; these include investigating any perceived benefit from students using feedback tags and exploring how students interact with their feedback. Results indicate that students with both the lower and higher marks in a cohort are more likely to opt to share their feedback and programming work than students with mid-ranged marks. A variety of reasons, both for and against sharing, given by students are discussed. Six categories of student behaviour exhibited during interaction with their feedback have been identified in this article. This article has shown that feedback tags can be used successfully as a form of shareable feedback and that a number of future research possibilities exist that can extend this topic.     

Film History

Richard Meran Barsam's Nonfiction Film: A Critical History (New York: Dutton, 1973 -- $9.95/4.95)

Stanley Kauffmann and Bruce Henstell (eds.) American Film Criticism from the Beginnings to Citizen Kane: Reviews of Significant Films at the Time They First Appeared (New York: Liveright 1973 -- $12.00/3.95)

Donald C. Willis' Horror and Science Fiction Films: A Checklist (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972 -- $15.00)

Chris Steinbrunner and Burt Goldblatt's Cinema of the Fantasic (New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972 -- $9.95)

Lawrence B. Thomas' The MGM Years: The Golden Age of Movie Musicals (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Columbia House (distribution by Arlington House), 1972 -- $14.95)     

Regulation

INFORMATION LAW: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, PRIVACY, OPEN MEETINGS, OTHER ACCESS LAWS by Burt A. Braverman, and Frances J. Chetwynd (June McDonald, Practising Law Institute Dept. CBR, 810 Seventh Ave., New York 10019—$135, two volumes)

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE REGULATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Kim Robert Skovill (Telephony Publishing, 55 East Jackson Blvd., Chicago, ILL. 60604—$105 incl. postage)     

Notes and News

For reasons of expediency, Colleges of Education (engaged in initial teacher education outside the university sector) introduced a category of Assistant Lecturer in the 1960s. These posts were created to strengthen the subject studies base within the colleges. They attracted a somewhat modest salary, and young, recent graduates tended to be appointed to them. In this paper, the authors consider the extent to which these posts were a form of preparation for teaching, with some features in common with current ‘workplace’ routes to Qualified Teacher Status in England. The approach is autobiographical, recording and reflecting on the authors’ own experience as Assistant Lecturers in Mathematics in two Colleges of Education in the 1960s and early 1970s.