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Understanding feedback and making it effective
Reflection activity:
As a teacher, you have probably assessed your students many times, and given them feedback. But, what exactly is feedback?
Write your own definition of feedback.
Throughout the first part of this module, we have talked about the importance of giving feedback so that students can learn. But… What really is feedback?
In the new assessment for learning paradigm, feedback is more than a giving a mark or making a few notes on a task.
This new understanding of feedback gives the student great importance. Students are very active in their assessment, even if the teacher gives the feedback, because they’re no longer “passive comment recipients”.
Watch this video to understand how the meaning of feedback is transformed in the assessment for learning paradigm:
How should feedback be?
In assessment for learning, feedback must be:
