Motivation and emotion/Assessment/Chapter/Feedback

This page summarises general feedback about the 2023 student-authored book chapters. Detailed feedback about each individual chapter is available on the respective talk pages.

Overall

 * 1) The overall quality of chapters was good, but there was a wide range

Overview

 * 1) Generally very good
 * 2) Consider using a case study or example or image to help engage reader interest

Theory

 * 1) Usually a well selected range of theories were considered
 * 2) Usually theories were explained in reasonably good depth
 * 3) Build more strongly on other related chapters (e.g., by embedding links to other chapters)
 * 4) More examples could be useful to explain the theories in practice

Research

 * 1) Usually relevant research was summarised, but could often have been more indepth
 * 2) Place more emphasis on major reviews such as meta-analyses
 * 3) Sometimes there was insufficient citation to support claims

Integration

 * 1) There was typically good integration between theory and research
 * 2) Often there was more emphasis on theory than research - strive for balance

Conclusion

 * 1) Useful summaries of key points were provided
 * 2) Good emphasis on take-home messages, but could these messages could often be improved and made more explicit.

Written expression

 * 1) The quality of written expression was generally good. There seemed to be an improvement on previous years, perhaps due to the new widespread availability of gen-AI.
 * 2) Some common problems were:
 * 3) in psychological science, write using 3rd person perspective, rather than 1st person
 * 4) serial commas should be used (they are part of APA style)
 * 5) use of ownership apostrophes
 * 6) "People" is often a better term than "individuals"
 * 7) Reduce use of weasel words which bulk out the text, but don't enhance meaning
 * 8) Avoid starting sentences with a citation unless the author is particularly pertinent. Instead, it is more interesting for the the content/key point to be communicated, with the citation included along the way or, more typically, in parentheses at the end of the sentence.
 * 9) Use Australian spelling.
 * 10) The main areas for improving APA style were:
 * 11) Citations with three or more authors should use the first author's surname followed by et al. and the year
 * 12) Reference formatting areas for improvement:
 * 13) capitalisation
 * 14) italicisation
 * 15) use of hyperlinked dois

Learning features

 * 1) Embedded interwiki links to Wikipedia articles were underdone; more could be usefully added to most chapters
 * 2) Embedded interwiki links to related Wikiversity book chapters were very underutilised
 * 3) Images were well used, with several students uploading their own images (thankyou!)
 * 4) Tables were less commonly used, but when they were were usually very useful
 * 5) Feature boxes were well used
 * 6) Quizzes were well used
 * 7) Case studies were well used

Social contributions

 * 1) There were many useful improvements to past and current chapters through social contributions
 * 2) The amount and quality of these contributions varied widely
 * 3) A small number of students contributed across three platforms (Wikiversity, UCLearn Canvas, and X/Twitter)
 * 4) Unless there were direct links to evidence, no marks were provided
 * 5) A handful of students received social contribution bonus marks