Feedback Chats: Providing Individualized Feedback in a Construction Management Classroom

Andrew Barnes

doi:10.29007/vp71

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Feedback Chats: Providing Individualized Feedback in a Construction Management Classroom

9 pages•Published: May 26, 2024

Andrew Barnes

Abstract

Construction management (CM) students need more feedback from their teachers—feedback that is timely, individualized, informational, and edifying. Unsurprisingly, this is very difficult for CM teachers to provide given their constraints in both time and resources. This paper describes one way to offer CM students more feedback using a novel pedagogical method called “Feedback Chats” that applies elements of the flipped classroom and the fishbowl teaching strategy to free up class time for students and teachers to connect individually and regularly. Feedback Chats were first implemented in an undergraduate CM course called Housing and Land Development located at a major university in the southeast United States. Based on thematically analyzed data from end-of-course surveys administered by The University, students felt that Feedback Chats were effective, and they appreciated the direct and routine student-teacher contact that the teaching method provided. Key takeaways from this exploratory study are that feedback needs to be (1) timely, even before an assignment is submitted, if possible, (2) spoken, not written, and (3) committed to by the teacher ahead of time. (4) CM Teachers should recognize that even with Feedback Chats, class time will always be scarce.

Keyphrases: Construction Education, Construction Management, feedback

In: Tom Leathem, Wesley Collins and Anthony J. Perrenoud (editors). Proceedings of 60th Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference, vol 5, pages 57--65

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/JbdH
	https://doi.org/10.29007/vp71

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{ASC2024:Feedback_Chats_Providing_Individualized,
  author    = {Andrew Barnes},
  title     = {Feedback Chats: Providing Individualized Feedback in a Construction Management Classroom},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 60th Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference},
  editor    = {Tom Leathem and Wes Collins and Anthony Perrenoud},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Built Environment},
  volume    = {5},
  pages     = {57--65},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2632-881X},
  url       = {https://easychair.org/publications/paper/JbdH},
  doi       = {10.29007/vp71}}

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