Helping students become successful learners is the goal of Rebecca Burnett.

The fourth of six Liberal Arts and Sciences Master Teacher lecturers, Burnett will be speaking on these strategies and her teaching style during a workshop today.

Burnett, professor of English, will be presenting her topic on “Formative Feedback Via Technology” at 3:30 p.m. in Room 1230 of the Communications Building.

She said using technology to edit students’ writing allows professors to do more one-on-one work with students to help develop their papers.

Burnett said there are two broad categories of feedback.

“Summative feedback is received once a project has been completed,” she said. “A student will learn from his or her work; the project is done, and the student may think less critically about the comments the professor suggests.”

On the other hand, formative feedback is used during the writing process, to improve the piece while it is being written.

“Formative feedback using electronic tools is beneficial to the author, so he or she retains complete control of decisions made while revising the report,” she said.

Burnett said she will also describe how certain electronic tools improve feedback and the appropriate times to use these tools to achieve better results with student writing.

Lee Haugen, faculty development specialist, said audience members will be able to go home with more knowledge about teaching with technology from Burnett’s lecture.

“We’ve learned a lot from [the Master Teachers] sharing their research and information with the rest of campus,” he said.

Dave Roberts, associate professor of English, said Burnett worked with him in the past as liaisons between the business and agriculture colleges to enhance communication training.

“She is well respected by her colleagues and is a driving force of integrating technology in the classroom on the ISU campus,” he said.