Learning via critique assessments and positive and negative constructive feedback

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Learning via critique assessments and positive and negative constructive feedback 

 

With any course, it is a best practice to align the learning activities and assessments together to promote the achievement of the course learning goals and that is what we are doing here at PTV -- just like they do daily in a real newsroom atmosphere.  

Critiques are often seen as an assessment tool to allow students the ability to comment in an educated TV lingo industry language, anonymously, on their peers' work. However, they are also a valuable learning activity, which should promote course learning goals. 

 

  • The significance of our critique process is to strengthen your knowledge as a MMJ, (Multimedia Journalist) your capabilities as a multimedia journalist and improve our overall product as a team through positive and negative constructive criticism from our team members.
    • And that is the desired learning goal for doing critiques overall.

 

Learning goals for students receiving the critique: 

  • Students will be able to get a better understanding of what they are doing right or wrong, what is expected of them and how they can achieve better outcomes for the sake of the team 
  • Students will be able to grow their knowledge and skills to create a stronger product to strengthen our overall show product
  • Students will be able to grow their vocabulary on how to effectively promote course learning goals. 

 

Learning goals for students providing the critique: 

  • Students will be able to recognize and analyze how the formal and technical elements of producing a show, graphic, script, segment, VO, MOS, etc. are most effectively achieved
  • Students will be able to perform various rotating production positions with more confidence based upon analyzing and hearing and giving constructive feedback of their peers. 

 

Guidelines for your critique points:

  • Identify one specific thing at a time that you are commenting on and why you are commenting on it 
  • Critique the work, not the creator 
  • Be objective, especially if the work or topic is not in a style or choice that you prefer
  • Describe expressive qualities in the work
  • Don’t be vague; give specific suggestion(s) for improvement
  • Be polite; avoid harmful or rude language 

 

Guidelines for receiving a critique 

  • Keep an open mind and really listen without getting defensive when you are reading the feedback or hear the feedback read out loud
  • Do not take what the critic is saying as a personal attack, but as a suggestion for improvement
  • Know that poor comments that just didn’t meet the assignment's mission were likely  weeded out 
  • Know that comments will grow as will professional lingo, as we go in the class, and not everyone has the same ability, at the same time, to effectively communicate what they are trying to say. 

 

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. -Winston Churchill 

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