Responding and Getting Response

Fears

3. What is the biggest barrier to giving feedback?

The responses of the students to this question fell into seven categories (plus the usual 'other' category). The top two categories contained almost half of the total comments.


Collection of Actual Comments

Below are the actual comments of the students. The context surrounding some comments has been removed to leave just the actual 'barrier' expressed, but the words of the students have not been changed.

Other comments:

Lack of knowledge or lack of confidence...

Fear of offending the author...

Time...

Not knowing each other well enough...

General reluctance...

Differences in personal style...

Lack of clarity about the process...