Explore the Student Feedback Literacy Instrument (SFLI)
Open access resources and materials below
Explore the Student Feedback Literacy Instrument (SFLI)
Open access resources and materials below
What is Student Feedback Literacy?
Feedback Literacy
Student differ in how they engage with feedback and how much they benefit from feedback. Feedback literacy captures these student features by describing the set of attitudes, abilities, and habits to make sense of and utilize feedback.
The authors of a classic paper define it as: “the understandings, capacities and dispositions needed to make sense of information and use it to enhance work or learning strategies.” (Carless & Boud, 2018, p.1316)
The Student Feedback Literacy Instrument (SFLI)
Use the SFLI in your teaching or research
Using large student samples across different cultural context and languages, we developed a self-report instrument to measure student feedback literacy. The initial instrument was designed and assessed in Woitt et al., (2025). The final SFLI instrument, presented in Weidlich et al. (2025), consists of 22 items across two dimensions: feedback attitudes and feedback practices. The short form version (SFLI-S) consists of 11 items. Both versions of the SFLI are available in English, German, and Turkish.
See below resources for more information.
