Electronic Feedback

Tech Tip Tuesday (September 19, 2023)

Bring Brian in to work on what you need!

Providing feedback to students is crucial.

Marzano tells us to give feedback during the process, not after the learning is done.

Hattie tells us to work with those struggling learners immediately and provide the proficient students feedback later.

Regardless of which train of thought you're going, give them some way to grow.

Feedback is most effective when it confirms what students are doing right, rather than just focusing on errors. Providing positive feedback along with constructive criticism optimizes impact.

Feedback should be timely, specific, simple to implement, and address goals rather than praise or punishment to make the feedback actionable for students.

What effective feedback isn't

A grade or score. A letter or number provides no information on how to improve.
Value judgments. “Good,” “bad,” or “interesting!” don’t tell students anything about why you’re making that judgment or what they can do to do better next time.
Advice. Opinions, guidance, and general recommendations are too vague for students to grow.
Assessment. May provide broad comparative data about student learning but no real direction.
Evaluation. This is judgmental and comparative. It is often identifiable by the heavy use of adverbs and adjectives.
Praise. Positive pats on the back feel good but lack the detail needed to implement change in the student.

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How can I give feedback digitally?

Give time to incorporate feedback.

Wait to release those grades and provide checklists and ways for students to understand how they can help each other grow. Make a quick checklist or rubric using your LMS's built-in rubric tool or ask ChatGPT to generate one based on your criteria or use MagicSchool AI's generator.

Add voice comments or quick screencast

Kami allows for easy voice commenting or add what you mean with a quick Screencastify for commenting exactly what you mean.

Group Feedback within Google

Place students in groups together (or use Flippity's random group generator) to have students look at their feedback together and provide ways for each other to grow.

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