1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
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1. 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? | 2. 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? | 3. Timperley and Hattie | Which researchers consider effective feedback to be one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement? | 4. Bad feedback | What can be worse than no feedback? | 5. If feedback is to be effective it needs to be frequent, constructive and instructive.(Dinham) | What makes feedback the most effective? | 6. It’s the quality of the feedback rather than its existence or absence that determines its power. | What determines the power of feedback? | 7. 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? | 8. 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? |
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