Mentors' and students' perspectives of feedback in practice assessment: a literature review.

Project SummaryThis project aims to address the complex challenges in providing meaningful feedback to students in thepractice learning environment. A literature review will examine the current published research and scholarshipin this area.AimThe aim of the project is to identify relevant literature related to feedback in practice assessment.ObjectivesTo undertake a review of the literature related to the provision of feedback within nursing, medicine, dentistryand allied health professionals, within the current published research and scholarship.To identify search terms to be agreed between the team.To set inclusion criteria to include all academic papers; government literature and professional guidanceliterature that focuses on the processes of feedback in practice assessment in relation to the achievement ofprofessional competencies. Given the specific nature of the NMC nursing standards, and their recentintroduction, only papers from 2010 onwards will be included initially.To set exclusion criteria to exclude papers that do not hold direct relevance to assessment and supervision inrelation to professional competencies and/or did not relate to assessment and supervision in practice learningenvironments.ResultsA search of the literature 2010-2014 resulted in Initial search n=208, after reading the abstracts for relevancen=55, after reading the articles n=35 in total.FindingsThere were seven main areas that emerged from the literature: the nature of feedback, seeking feedback,understanding of feedback, relationship between Mentors and Students, timing of feedback, length of thepractice experience and barriers