An Experimental Test of the Learning Errors and Formative Feedback (LEAFF) Model: Creating Positive Learning and Assessment Environments for Students

• Author / Creator

  Bustos Gomez, Maria Clara

• The Learning Errors and Formative Feedback [LEAFF] model is a three-part learning and assessment framework that is designed to create safe learning and assessment environments for students. This paper reports an experimental test of the first part of the model, namely, a manipulation of an instructional variable expected to alter the Instructional Climate for students. Specifically, a Learning Errors Intervention [LEI] was embedded in a one-hour Elementary Statistics lecture and was treated as a between-group variable. One hundred and one undergraduate students were randomly assigned to either the LEI (n=51) condition or a control condition (n=50). Statistical analyses, conducted on cognitive and affective measures collected during and at the end of the lecture, supported predictions derived from the LEAFF model on the positive effect of the LEI on students’ feelings of safety, trust in the instructor, and increased likelihood of indicating areas of confusion with the content.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Learning Errors
  • Learning and achievement performance
  • Assessement
  • Affective and cognitive variables
  • Classroom Environment
  • Measurement
  • Trust
  • Formative Feedback

• Graduation date

  Fall 2013

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Master of Education

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3V11VV0W

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.