Meet our new Development Partners
9 September 2024
CRADLE is delighted to announce our four new Development Partners for 2024-2025.
Kris Vingrys – School of Health and Social Development
Jacqui Peters – School of Education
Shama Islam – School of Engineering;
Patricia Perlen – Deakin Law School
The CRADLE Development Partners scheme helps educators implement in everyday practice some of the innovations CRADLE is researching. The scheme is designed to enhance teaching and learning at Deakin and build understanding as to how pedagogical ideas play out in practice.
The focus of the 2024-2025 partnership scheme is improving student feedback literacy around the provision of peer feedback. Student feedback literacy is defined as ‘the understandings, capacities and dispositions needed to make sense of information and use it to enhance work or learning strategies‘ (Carless & Boud 2018, p. 1316). Feedback literacy can be developed in students. It promotes positive feedback behaviours. These include seeking clarification on feedback they have received. They also involve developing a toolkit of strategies to use when applying feedback to their work.
These behaviours, or capacities, can also be applied to peer feedback. In peer feedback students are put into the role of providing feedback to another person and not just receiving it. By improving feedback literacy, students can be supported to provide effective feedback messages to their peers. This enables positive learning outcomes for both parties.
Our 2024 Development Partners will be working with CRADLE Co-Director Professor Phill Dawson and CRADLE PhD candidate Tegan Little. Our Development Partners are already using peer feedback and we look forward to working with them to implement an online feedback literacy module. Subscribe to our blog to see anticipated improvements in student participation and engagements in peer feedback activities.
About our Development Partners
Kris Vingrys
As a Senior Lecturer in Health in the School of Health and Social Development, Kris’s work spans teaching and research in public health specialising in nutrition. As a teacher Kris likes to focus on the first-year transition, and she wants to support student success during their early academic journey, whilst aiming to build inclusivity, engagement and universal design as foundations in unit development.
Jacqui Peters
Jacqui’s expertise is in the field of Health and Physical Education. She is passionate about teaching and has a range of research interests including Health and Physical Education curriculum, assessment and policy, and the experiences of early career teachers.
Shama Islam
Shama is a Senior Lecturer in electrical engineering. Her research interests involve efficient and reliable transmission protocol design for smart grid communication. Shama has more than 20 publications in
prestigious journals and peer-reviewed conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
Patricia Perlen
Patricia Perlen is a Lecturer in Law at Deakin Law School. Patricia was admitted as an Australian Lawyer in 2007 and has worked in the public, private and community sector in Australia and overseas.
