Students' Insights and Responses on Teacher's Feedback and Remarks on their Written Outputs in Research 4

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Understanding students' various learning skills, an important part of the job of a teacher, can be manifested through students’ written and verbal outputs. Written outputs are checked, marked, and returned to students as means of feed backing for students. Thus, this action research aims to identify the students' insights and responses on teacher's feedback and remarks on their written outputs in Research 4. Specifically, this study identifies the insights of students, the effects of comments and feedbacks to their writing skills and determines if the colors of ink used had effects to their behaviors.

METHODS

Two sections (A and B) enrolled in Valenzuela City School of Mathematics and Science, SY 2016 -2017 were the respondents of the study. Each section composed of 10 male and 10 female students purposely chosen as experimental and control group, respectively. Experimental group was exposed to a written feedback on their outputs using different colors of pen and pencils; while the control group received verbal feedbacks and comments. Both groups used logbooks and answered the likert chart, survey interview and reflective journal. Teacher-made research instruments were used such as Questionnaires for Students' Insights and Responses on Teacher's Feedback and Comments in Their Written Outputs and Likert Chart on Students' Insights on Feedback in Their Written Outputs. Validation and reliability testing were employed. Both groups answered the questionnaire and likert chart.

RESULTS

The results revealed that students utilized the written remarks and feedback for revision and improvement of their papers. Students expected post-conferencing for clarification. Negative written feedback of teacher denoted negative impression to students. However, they valued more the comments and feedback over colors of pen used.

DISCUSSIONS

Students expect to receive their written outputs with teacher's remarks, comments and feedback after being checked. Written remarks, comments, and feedback helped the students identify their own mistakes and reflect on it. More so, the writing skills of students in Research 4 are affected by these remarks, comments and feedback. Thus, the color of ink or pen used in writing remarks, comments, and feedback is irrelevant to the message the remarks, comments and feedback conveyed. The students value more the remarks, comments and feedback than the color of ink or pen used in writing.