Digital feedback formats
Audio recordings
Creating audio recordings enables offering feedback that resembles spoken feedback. Tone of voice can emphasize points, and feedback can be combined with instrument demonstrations. These recordings are typically short, as longer ones can be hard to follow.
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Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
- It’s a quick way to provide feedback, taking only the time needed to record
- Tone and voice inflection can underscore key points
- Audio recordings align well with the verbal feedback common in music instruction and apprenticeship-based teaching, making them accessible for many
- Feedback can be replayed repeatedly
- Audio recordings can feel less intimidating than video recordings and require less effort than written feedback
- The format can feel more informal and spontaneous than video or written feedback
- Listening to older recordings can help students see their progress
Disadvantages
- Recording feedback may happen too quickly limiting reflective thought
- Sometimes feedback may not be communicated clearly enough for the student to understand
- If students don’t understand the feedback, they can’t ask for clarification; in live verbal feedback, questions can be asked immediately.
Experiences with the activity
Brass ensemble teacher Ida Hovde used audio files in a project where students from Aalborg School of the Arts gave feedback to conservatory students at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus/Aalborg in the activity “Exchange of practice videos and feedback between two groups”.
Experiences with the activity
Piano teacher Jakob Alsgaard Bahr used audio files to provide feedback to students at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus/Aalborg, with students using audio files to give feedback on each other’s performance videos in the activity “Exam preparation: Feedback and reflection module with practice/performance videos”.
