Mail Merge: A Function to Improve Efficiency... Beyond the Generation of Customized Feedback Documents

The objective of this article is to improve educators' efficiency in generating and distributing frequent, timely, customized, and confidential feedback to students by using existing computer resources and capitalizing on familiar software applications. Adaptations of a specific function, mail...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Decision sciences journal of innovative education 2005-01, Vol.3 (1), p.151-159
Main Author: Tan, Chong Leng
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Colleges & universities
Feedback
Performance evaluation
Software
Studies
Teaching
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The objective of this article is to improve educators' efficiency in generating and distributing frequent, timely, customized, and confidential feedback to students by using existing computer resources and capitalizing on familiar software applications. Adaptations of a specific function, mail merger, available in MS Word, are detailed in performing two forms of feedback. First, individual grade reporting illustrates the electronic distribution of customized reports that include grade book data. Second, peer assessment reporting illustrates the same principle using data from an external source, that is, student comments.
ISSN:1540-4595
1540-4609
DOI:10.1111/j.1540-4609.2005.00059.x