Georgia Tech has implemented Feedback Loop across several of their programs, beginning with the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering whose implementation is detailed below. Read below for a full detailing of the Georgia Tech Feedback Loop collaboration.
Program Background
ISYE 4106 Senior Design, is a required capstone course for Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) students at Georgia Tech. Effectively working in a team is one of the learning outcomes for ISYE 4106. Specifically, students apply methodologies studied in the curriculum in a cumulative and comprehensive manner to model and solve engineering design problems quantitatively and computationally to produce solutions that incorporate appropriate engineering standards under multiple constraints with consideration for public health, safety, and welfare, as well as ethical, professional, global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.
Georgia Tech’s Challenges
After handling peer feedback manually and with various tools tried over the years, Georgia Tech ISyE needed a platform that covers two needs:
- Efficient and flexible enough to support their existing peer feedback surveys (previously done manually via Word documents).
- Efficiently and anonymously relay feedback back to students so they can learn from their teammates’ feedback without requiring manual effort and time from faculty.
Feedback Loop Solution
In addition to all the typical peer feedback question types of likert scales, text entry, yes/no and custom scales, Feedback Loop supports points allocation so that students allocate points among their team with a fixed-sum principle. Points allocation helps address the common issue of some students giving their peers the highest available score without thought, resulting in more meaningful peer feedback results. This points allocation question has been integral to Dr. Nazzal’s peer feedback approach and using this feature in Feedback Loop helped her move away from manual peer feedback without having to sacrifice her carefully crafted process!
Georgia Tech Feedback Loop Implementation Outcomes
Dr. Dima Nazzal
Director of Professional Practice
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
I love Feedback Loop for its seamless integration with Canvas, superb support responsiveness and the flexibility of the tool to to the peer feedback survey I designed before using the tool. This has saved us hours and hours of manual effort every semester!
Time Savings
Easy for Students
Seamless LMS Integration
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Hours Saved!
Reusable templates, survey reminders and the integration with Canvas LMS has saved countless hours.
LMS (Canvas, in this case) Student Roster and Groups
Feedback Loop Auto Import
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Deep Flexibility to Design Our Own Peer Feedback Surveys
Switching from document-driven peer feedback doesn’t have to mean giving up on flexibility. Feedback Loop provided the flexibility of survey building Dr. Nazzal needed, but with the efficiency of a seamless peer feedback tool.
Flexible and easy to use survey editor to meet Georgia Tech’s exacting peer feedback needs.
Points allocation question type allows Dr. Nazzal to prompt students for a thoughtful review of teammate performance.
Georgia Tech uses Feedback Loop’s results release feature to provide students with tailored performance reporting. The reports are fully automated and can include or exclude any peer feedback questions for maximum flexibility.
