Read our latest publication: the feedback literacy behaviour scale

9 August 2023

Feedback can be one of the most powerful pedagogies we have in education, but its effects are dependent on what students do. In 2019, we set out to develop an instrument to study exactly that: the Feedback Literacy Behaviour Scale (FLBS). It’s not the first instrument to measure feedback literacy, but it is the first one to focus on behaviour rather than primarily focus on beliefs, attitudes or understandings about feedback. And after the highs and lows of the peer review process (and a pandemic), it’s finally published:

Dawson, P., Yan, Z., Lipnevich, A., Tai, J., Boud, D., & Mahoney, P. (2023). Measuring what learners do in feedback: the feedback literacy behaviour scale. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2023.2240983

The FLBS consists of 24 questions across five dimensions: Seek Feedback information (SF), Make Sense of information (MS), Use Feedback information (UF), Provide Feedback information (PF), and Manage Affect (MA). The paper and the scale are published under a Creative Commons Attribution license, which means you are free to download, share and use them in your work, and even make adaptations to them under the terms of the license.

We think the FLBS has all sorts of uses:

• Understanding the feedback literacy behaviours of your students
• Measuring the effectiveness of an intervention to improve feedback literacy
• Tracking changes in feedback literacy over time

You might even find it interesting to try it out yourself, and reflect on your own feedback literacy behaviours.