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Feedback on Assignments
Distribution of responses
How institutions vary
Middle 80% of the 11 institutions with enough responses. Academic domain mean: 7.9.
Institution is a major factor here: weaker and stronger institutions are 2.5 points apart on this topic. Where a student studies shapes their experience more than the topic itself does.
What we ask
“The feedback on my assignments helps me improve my work over time.”
What students say, and why
Tone and timing: feedback can be technically correct but land badly, or arrive late.
"You can say something that’s technically fine, but it can still sound harsh. And that happens often."
"It’s fine, but sometimes a lot of waiting."
Direct, clear feedback on what was right or wrong.
"They tell me whether I did the work right or wrong."
Representative, de-identified comments from the lowest- and highest-scoring responses, translated where needed.
Related insights
How we measure it
This is the topic-level average across its subtopics, on a 0-10 scale (higher is better), so an individual subtopic can score higher or lower than the topic shown here. Figures are scored responses from the last 12 months, mapped to the 2026 framework via the canonical question mapping; the cross-2020 figure on the Index uses the full response base. Movement compares the most recent six months with the prior six. Distribution bands: 0-4, >4-<8, 8-10. Cross-institution aggregate; no single institution identified; minimum group size applied.
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