Title: Using classroom data to give systematic feedback to students to improve learning
Headings: Using Classroom Data to Give Systematic Feedback to Students to Improve Learning
Using Classroom Data to Give Systematic Feedback to Students to Improve Learning
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Content: This need not always be done at the beginning of each session, but students should get regular reminders of where they are headed, together with summaries of progress toward these goals. Use evidence from classroom discussions, student answers and learning tasks to revise lessons and activities. Teachers can use various techniques that engage all students in discussion and use revealed evidence of student thinking and understanding as they plan future instruction. Provide feedback that clearly and explicitly identifies what needs to be improved in order to move learners forward and promote students' understanding of concepts. To best meet students' immediate learning needs, teachers should use this evidence to adapt instruction in real time
Encourage students to serve as instructional and learning resources for one another on a daily basis
Encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning
Formative feedback is essential to the assessment process as it allows teachers to collect the evidence they need to immediately address their students' learning needs. Student outcomes
These key strategies of assessment for learning can be expected to produce the following student outcomes: Students will become more engaged with lesson content and activities. Students will support each other and take responsibility for their own learning within well-established criteria for quality. Students will act on feedback in order to improve their assignments. Students' learning will improve, as evidenced by test scores and other indicators.