In this 15-minute micro session video, you’ll learn four ways to provide feedback to students to maximize learning: instructor feedback, automated feeback, self assessment and peer feedback.
Providing useful feedback helps students adjust their thinking or their approach to a problem that moves them get unstuck or see a new path forward. On this video, you will see:
- Why is feedback critical for learning.
- Four ways to give feedback: instructor, automated, self and peer.
- How to choose.
- How to use a planning tool to help you implement.
Why is this teaching technique effective?
Effective feedback answers 3 questions for students:
- Where am I going?
- How am I going?
- Where to Next?
Hattie and Timperley call these Feed Up, Feed Back, Feed Forward.
Feed Up is about the learning goals. What is the goal here, which we can think of as the bullseye that they are working towards achieving—this might include content goals or process goals.
Feedback tells students how they are going in relation to those goals. This is what we often focus on when we think of “feedback,” providing some indication of where they stand. But the goals also matters: knowing we’ve landed on an 8 means little unless we know that the target bullseye score is actually 9.
Once students know how they’re doing in relation to the goals, they need to know how to get to the next level. What guidance on their process, approach, or thinking can help them get to the next level?