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This paper investigates a specific information ecology related to how students make sense of and organize graded feedback at a higher education institution in the United States. Based on qualitative research findings that suggest students are struggling to make sense of where and when to find information in an information ecology defined by a proliferation of tools and platforms, I argue for the importance of academic administrators and instructors dealing with the problem of interoperable findability––the ability for different software to speak to one another and make information findable across multiple channels. To do this, I first describe how the online survey and interviews were administered. Second, I explain the interoperable findability present in this information ecology. Third, I mention other findings relevant to graded feedback to get a fuller sense of this information ecology. Finally, I speculate on what this discussion of grading feedback says about how institutions and students relate through software-enabled tools and platforms.
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Lahey, M. (2023). Interoperable Findability: Investigating an Information Ecology of Graded Feedback in Higher Education. In: Kurosu, M., Hashizume, A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14014. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35572-1_21
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