Title: The Importance of Feedback for Student Learning
Headings: The Importance of Feedback for Student Learning
The Importance of Feedback for Student Learning
“ We all need people who give us feedback. That’s how we improve.
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When Grades Don’t Tell the Whole Story
The Value of Grades vs. Learning
What is Feedback?
How to Give Effective Feedback
Feedback Benefits All Parties
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Content: To be effective, feedback must also be ongoing, consistent, and timely. This means that students need ample opportunities to use feedback and that feedback must be accurate, trustworthy and stable. When feedback isn’t timely, students are disengaged and demotivated. It’s important to build regular feedback loops into your teaching practice. Feedback Benefits All Parties
Finally, feedback is something that every student can benefit from, whether it is offered digitally, verbally, or through the traditional written annotations on an assignment. This variety of feedback styles makes it easy to incorporate the feedback-model of student performance and assessment into the contemporary classroom. Even “A” students benefit from feedback. Those students are typically not challenged as much as they ought to be and may become complacent. While they still may earn an “A” it is helpful to know what they could be doing to improve their work even further - another learning challenge to excite, engage, and push them forward. Rarely does a student complete an assignment that shows no room for growth or change.