Reflective feedback
Reflective feedback helps learners grow by encouraging them to think about their experiences, knowledge, emotions, and connections to the world around them.
In the SENSE. approach, feedback happens through conversations, art, gallery presentations, mapping, and sensory exploration. This way of thinking about feedback expands beyond giving and receiving comments to a more holistic approach of creating space for meaningful reflection, personally and along with fellow learners (including all present!).
Feedback should be made desireable
We believe learning is social and embodied. That means feedback should consider what a person knows, how they feel, sense, and interact with others and their environment. Whether it’s a quick moment of insight or a long-term reflection, feedback helps us build confidence, curiosity, and a deeper understanding of the world and each other.
In the SENSE. digital learning hub you will find moments in our activities for explicit reflection and feedback from all involved. We also include a few structured ‘stand-alone’ feedback activities that can be integrated into your learning sequences.
You can read more about reflective feedback in our SENSE. Methodology.
Co-evaluation
Feedback that makes a difference in our learning
In the STEAM Labs run by our partners across Europe, we used the term co-evaluation to emphasize that all participants to be involved in shaping how SENSE. could effectively be a way to promote a sensory and participatory approach to STEAM education for a better future.
This was particularly important, given that one of our core values is to share responsibility for reflecting on and shaping the learning experience, ensuring that evaluation is meaningful, empathetic and fair to all.
Co-evaluation of training or learning processes
Co-evaluation works hand-in-hand with reflective feedback. Together, they offer structured ways for everyone to contribute to making the best learning environment possible and to empower everyone to be involved in generating change.
Co-evaluation is about learning together, valuing each person’s voice and perspective in the learning community.
You will find that each of the reflective feedback activities includes, alongside personal reflection, elements for participatory evaluation exploring what has been happening in the learning experience. These creative, open-ended activities invite personal interpretation and imagination, and are short, adaptable, and designed to fit different contexts.
Co-evaluation helps to understand impact in real time and adjust activities to better meet learners’ needs as well as the goals of teachers and facilitators.
Just like reflective feedback, co-evaluation is social and embodied. These activities encourage agency, reduce hierarchy, and support pathways for meaningful change.
You can read more about co-evaluation in our report on the SENSE. STEAM evaluation.
v1.0_D4.3_SENSE_Report on the SENSE.STEAM evaluation of the four specific areas