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Descriptive feedback is the most powerful tool for improving student learning - feedback that focuses on what needs to be done can encourage all to believe that they can improve (Black, Harrison, Lee, & Wiliam). | What can descriptive feedback do for student learning the in classroom?
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Hattie’s meta-analysis of the effect size (ES) of influences on student achievement places feedback at the top with an ES of 1.13 | What effect size (ES) does Hattie place on effective feedback?
| Timperley and Hattie | Which researchers consider effective feedback to be one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement?
| Bad feedback | What can be worse than no feedback?
| If feedback is to be effective it needs to be frequent, constructive and instructive.(Dinham) | What makes feedback the most effective?
| It’s the quality of the feedback rather than its existence or absence that determines its power. | What determines the power of feedback?
| 1.Relate to a specific learning intention and associated success criteria-2.Be timely- given immediately or soon after action- 3.Answer 3 questions for the students: Where am I going? (what are the goals)- ‘feed up’- How am I going? (what progress have I made towards the goal? ‘feedback’ -Where to next? (What activities need to be undertaken to make more better progress?) ‘feed up’- 4.Support students to monitor their own progress and achievements. | What are the 4 effective feedback essentials?
| 1. Do you follow up on the feedback?- 2. Do you give clear, concise feedback related to the learning goals?- 3. Do you identify what was done well, and what needs improvement?- 4. Does your feedback include how students can improve?- 5. Are your students expected to act on your feedback?- 6. Do you provide the necessary time for students to act on the feedback? | What questions can you ask yourself to reflect professionally on your current feedback process? |