David Playfoot
Biographic Data
| ID | 8901831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Playfoot |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Playfoot |
| SIGNATURE | PLAYFOOT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0855-334X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Fairly useful feedback
Research has shown that teachers and students are mismatched in their perceptions of feedback fairness. The characteristics of feedback comments that students perceive as fair have received relatively little attention in the literature. We present two experiments which consider whether characteristics that have been shown to relate to “effective” feedback also relate to fairness. Participants were presented with excerpts from fictional assignment…
What’s the use of being nice? Characteristics of feedback comments that students intend to use in improving their work
Although teachers spend a lot of time striving to provide high-quality feedback, students do not always act upon it and may rate it as unhelpful. The current study attempted to determine the characteristics of feedback that influence students’ intentions to use teachers’ comments in their future work. Participants rated real feedback comments for clarity, tone and encouragement as well as their intention to use those comments if they had received…
Hey ChatGPT, give me a title for a paper about degree apathy and student use of AI for assignment writing
ChatGPT could allow students to plagiarize the content of their coursework with little risk of detection. Little is known about undergraduate willingness to use AI tools. In this study, psychology undergraduates (N = 160) from the United Kingdom, indicated their willingness to use, and history of using, ChatGPT to write university assignments. Almost a third (32%) indicated that they would use such tools; 15% indicated that they had used them alr…
Is continuous assessment inclusive? An analysis of factors influencing student grades
This paper reports a series of studies that assessed the performance of students on continuous assessment components from two courses in an undergraduate psychology programme. Data were collected from two consecutive cohorts of students (total N = 576) and the grades of students were compared based on additional learning needs (ALN; ALN versus No ALN), whether or not the students had requested an extension to a deadline, and whether or not studen…
Are Word Association Responses Really the First Words that Come to Mind?
Word association has been a popular tool for research in linguistics and psychology over the last century. The paradigm presents participants with a cue word and asks them to respond with the first associated word that comes to mind. Inferences about the structure and organization of the lexicon have been made on the basis of the findings of word association tasks, and on the assumption that responses reflect the strongest link between words in t…
Establishing the Reliability of Word Association Data for Investigating Individual and Group Differences
This article argues that, across different psychological contexts, the methods of data collection, treatment, and analysis in word association tests have hitherto been inconsistent. We demonstrate that this inconsistency has resulted from inadequate control, in previous studies, of certain important variables including the basis of norm comparisons, and we present a principled method for collecting, scoring, and analysing association responses, t…
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Establishing the Reliability of Word Association Data for Investigating Individual and Group Differences
This article argues that, across different psychological contexts, the methods of data collection, treatment, and analysis in word association tests have hitherto been inconsistent. We demonstrate that this inconsistency has resulted from inadequate control, in previous studies, of certain important variables including the basis of norm comparisons, and we present a principled method for collecting, scoring, and analysing association responses, t…
Are Word Association Responses Really the First Words that Come to Mind?
Word association has been a popular tool for research in linguistics and psychology over the last century. The paradigm presents participants with a cue word and asks them to respond with the first associated word that comes to mind. Inferences about the structure and organization of the lexicon have been made on the basis of the findings of word association tasks, and on the assumption that responses reflect the strongest link between words in t…
Is continuous assessment inclusive? An analysis of factors influencing student grades
This paper reports a series of studies that assessed the performance of students on continuous assessment components from two courses in an undergraduate psychology programme. Data were collected from two consecutive cohorts of students (total N = 576) and the grades of students were compared based on additional learning needs (ALN; ALN versus No ALN), whether or not the students had requested an extension to a deadline, and whether or not studen…
Hey ChatGPT, give me a title for a paper about degree apathy and student use of AI for assignment writing
ChatGPT could allow students to plagiarize the content of their coursework with little risk of detection. Little is known about undergraduate willingness to use AI tools. In this study, psychology undergraduates (N = 160) from the United Kingdom, indicated their willingness to use, and history of using, ChatGPT to write university assignments. Almost a third (32%) indicated that they would use such tools; 15% indicated that they had used them alr…
What’s the use of being nice? Characteristics of feedback comments that students intend to use in improving their work
Although teachers spend a lot of time striving to provide high-quality feedback, students do not always act upon it and may rate it as unhelpful. The current study attempted to determine the characteristics of feedback that influence students’ intentions to use teachers’ comments in their future work. Participants rated real feedback comments for clarity, tone and encouragement as well as their intention to use those comments if they had received…
Fairly useful feedback
Research has shown that teachers and students are mismatched in their perceptions of feedback fairness. The characteristics of feedback comments that students perceive as fair have received relatively little attention in the literature. We present two experiments which consider whether characteristics that have been shown to relate to “effective” feedback also relate to fairness. Participants were presented with excerpts from fictional assignment…
Psychology (5 works) · Student Assessment and Feedback (3 works) · Association (psychology) (2 works) · Evaluation of Teaching Practices (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (2 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Word Association (2 works) · Academic integrity and plagiarism (1 works)