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Feedback is most effective when students are active participants in the feedback process. However, students may need to be supported to become proactive recipients of feedback. This chapter discusses how feedback portfolios are potentially useful interventions that may facilitate students’ recipience skills of self-appraisal, goal-setting and self-regulation, and engagement and motivation. After reviewing the ways in which feedback portfolios appear to target recipience processes, we present a qualitative case study of students’ perceptions of a VLE-embedded feedback e-portfolio to understand more about the ways in which portfolios actually facilitate recipience skills, and whether any barriers are experienced by students. We also reflect on our student–staff partnership approach, particularly in relation to how this benefitted our case study data collection.
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The authors wish to thank Cathy Derham, Julie Panzieri and Naomi Winstone for their valuable comments on an earlier draft of this chapter.
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Balloo, K., Vashakidze, A. (2020). Facilitating Students’ Proactive Recipience of Feedback with Feedback Portfolios. In: Gravett, K., Yakovchuk, N., Kinchin, I. (eds) Enhancing Student-Centred Teaching in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35396-4_16
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