Feedback Loop supports five question types, in addition to instruction blocks. One type, custom choices, allows you to build any response list or scale you would like.
Likert Scale
The most popular points scale in peer review: five point likert scale. You can customize it and make it your own with a different scale level and seven points is the second most popular option for likert scales.
Yes/No
The standard for collecting simple responses.
Custom Choices
Build your own scale from scratch.
Free Text
Qualitative feedback. Prompt students to share their own written thoughts in a peer feedback format, or as a general reflection on the team or course.
Points Allocation
Set an amount of points, per student on the team, to be allocated by students to their peers and self. This question type is useful if you want to enforce student peer ratings on a zero sum scale. Each point given to one student cannot be given to another, so the stakes are raised.
Deeper Dive on Points Allocation
- Minimum variance: this option is used to define the minmum gap between a student's lowest given score and highest given score. It is used to prevent students from allocating points evenly or not thinking critically about which student(s) performed best.
- Unique allocation: requires students to give every student a different value. These scores must still add up to the total available points pool before submission is accepted.
- Points per student (baseline): this is the number of points in the pool, scaled to the number of students in the team. It's like a par value: any student who receives less than this value represents a negative score, while any student who receives more than this value represents a positive score, regardless of team sizes. Example: a 20 point baseline for a team of five results in 100 points available for that team.
