# Motivation and emotion/Assessment/Chapter/Feedback/2021

This page summarises general feedback about the 2021 student-authored book chapters. Detailed feedback about each individual chapter is available on its talk page.

## Overall

* The overall quality of chapters was good, but there was a wide range.
* The best chapters have been tweeted in this thread.

## Overview

* Generally good to very good.
* A case study or example or image to help engage reader interest.
* Provide focus questions in a feature box.

## Theory
### Breadth

* Usually a good range of theory was considered.
* Sometimes very general theories were used (e.g., Maslow's hierarchy of needs) when more specific theories would have been better.

### Depth

* Usually theories were explained in good depth.
* More examples would have been useful to explain the theories in practice.

## Research
### Key findings

* Usually relevant research was summarised.
* More emphasis on major reviews such as meta-analyses would be helpful.

### Critical thinking

* Often there was a lack of sufficient detail about the research reviewed.
* Sometimes there was insufficient citation to support claims.

## Integration

* There was typically good integration between theory and research.
* Often there was more emphasis on theory than research - strive for balance.

## Conclusion

* Conclusions were generally very good.
* Greater emphasis on take-home messages would be helpful.

## Style
### Written expression

* The quality of written expression varied widely.
* The most common problems were grammatical, including:
** in psychological science, write using 3rd person perspective, rather than 1st person
** serial commas should be used
** correct use of ownership apostrophes
* The main spelling problem was using American instead of Australian spelling.
* APA style was generally good. The main areas for improvement were:
** Citations were generally very good
*** For APA style 7th ed., use first author surname et al. when there are three or more authors.
** References were rarely perfect. Main areas for improvement:
*** capitalisation
*** italicisation
*** use of hyperlinked dois

### Learning features

* Embedded interwiki links to Wikipedia articles were very good.
* Embedded interwiki links to Wikiversity book chapters were very poor. This chapter provides some good examples:
** "The impacts of COVID-19 on people's motivation have resulted in widespread societal uncertainty ..."
** "One theory explaining emotional processes for vaccine uptake is protection motivation theory ..."
** "Fear can also serve as a motivator ..."
* Images were reasonably well used.
* Tables were less commonly used, but were usually very useful.
* Feature boxes were well used.
* Quizzes were well used.
* Case studies were well used.

## Social contributions

* Overall, there were substantial improvements made to past and current chapter by peer authors.
* The amount and quality of these contributions varied widely - most were rated as minor (.25), followed by moderate (.50), with some considered to be major (1.00+).
* A small number of students contributed across three platforms (Wikiversity, UCLearn Canvas, and Twitter).
* Sometimes contributions were claimed, but unless there were direct links to evidence, no marks were provided.
* A handful of students received social contribution bonus marks, including:
** Kait B
** LozGrace
** U3187741