# Motivation and emotion/Assessment/Chapter/Feedback/2023

This page summarises general feedback about the 2023 student-authored book chapters. Detailed feedback about each individual chapter is available on the respective talk pages.

## Overall

* The overall quality of chapters was good, but there was a wide range

## Overview

* Generally very good
* Consider using a case study or example or image to help engage reader interest

## Theory

* Usually a well selected range of theories were considered
* Usually theories were explained in reasonably good depth
* Build more strongly on other related chapters (e.g., by embedding links to other chapters)
* More examples could be useful to explain the theories in practice

## Research

* Usually relevant research was summarised, but could often have been more indepth
* Place more emphasis on major reviews such as meta-analyses
* 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

* Useful summaries of key points were provided
* Good emphasis on take-home messages, but could these messages could often be improved and made more explicit.

## Style
### Written expression

* The quality of written expression was generally good. There seemed to be an improvement on previous years, perhaps due to the new widespread availability of gen-AI.
* Some common problems were:
** in psychological science, write using 3rd person perspective, rather than 1st person
** serial commas should be used (they are part of APA style)
** use of ownership apostrophes
** "People" is often a better term than "individuals"
** Reduce use of weasel words which bulk out the text, but don't enhance meaning
** Avoid starting sentences with a citation unless the author is particularly pertinent. Instead, it is more interesting for the the content/key point to be communicated, with the citation included along the way or, more typically, in parentheses at the end of the sentence.
* Use Australian spelling.
* The main areas for improving APA style were:
** Citations with three or more authors should use the first author's surname followed by et al. and the year
** Reference formatting areas for improvement:
*** capitalisation
*** italicisation
*** use of hyperlinked dois

### Learning features

* Embedded interwiki links to Wikipedia articles were underdone; more could be usefully added to most chapters
* Embedded interwiki links to related Wikiversity book chapters were very underutilised
* Images were well used, with several students uploading their own images (thankyou!)
* Tables were less commonly used, but when they were were usually very useful
* Feature boxes were well used
* Quizzes were well used
* Case studies were well used

## Social contributions

* There were many useful improvements to past and current chapters through social contributions
* The amount and quality of these contributions varied widely
* A small number of students contributed across three platforms (Wikiversity, UCLearn Canvas, and X/Twitter)
* Unless there were direct links to evidence, no marks were provided
* A handful of students received social contribution bonus marks