Monthly Archives: November 2013

7 Things to Remember about Feedback

I found the following information in Educational Leadership magazine, Sept 2012; http://www.asch.org/el

1-Feedback is not advice, praise or evaluation.  Feedback is information about how we are doing in our efforts to reach a goal. Grant Wiggins, p.10

2-If students know the classroom is a safe place to make mistakes; they are more likely to use feedback for learning. Dylan William, p.30

3- The feedback students give teachers can be more powerful that the feedback teachers give students. Cris Tovani, p. 28

4- When we give a grade as part of our feedback, students routinely read only as far as the grade.  Peter Johnston, p 64

5-Effective feedback occurs during the learning, while there is time to act on it.  Jan Cappuis, p.36

6- Most of the feedback that students receive about their classroom work is from other students-and much of that feedback is wrong. John Hattie, p. 18

7-Students need to know their learning target- the specific skill they’re supposed to learn- or else “feedback” is just someone telling them what to do.  Susan Brookhart, p.24