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Why feedback fails

Jan 10, 2017 | Category: assessment

Feedback is one of the few things in education that pretty much every agrees is important and worthwhile. The need for feedback is obvious: if you were expected to learn how to reverse park a car whil...

#feedback #PISA #Kluger & DeNisi

Feedback and assessment are not the same

Jul 11, 2016 | Category: assessment

You don't figure out how fat a pig is by feeding it. Greg Ashman At the sharp end of education, assessment and feedback are often, unhelpfully, conflated. This has been compounded by the language we u...

#feedback #reliability #validity

Should students respond to feedback?

Nov 30, 2015 | Category: assessment

The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.Fran Lebowitz One of the criticisms of my post about book monitoring is that I have omitted checks to see whether students...

#Dylan Wiliam #marking #feedback #book monitoring #student response

Getting feedback right Part 4: How can we increase pupils’ aspiration?

Apr 02, 2014 | Category: assessment

You may remember that over the past few weeks I've been trying to refine my thinking about how we can improve the way we give feedback. If you haven't already read the previous instalments, you might...

#John Hattie #feedback #Education Endowment Foundation #aspirations

Getting feedback right Part 3: How can we increase pupils' effort?

Mar 19, 2014 | Category: assessment

I started to explore how we might make feedback more meaningful a few weeks back but then got sidetracked. If you haven't already looked at them, it might be worth spending a few moments on Part 1 (wh...

#Carol Dweck #Dylan Wiliam #Effort #feedback

Getting feedback right Part 2: How do we provide clarity?

Mar 05, 2014 | Category: assessment

As discussed in yesterday's post, I am currently working on the assumption that there are only 3 meaningful purposes of feedback: To provide clarity To increase pupils' effort To increase pupil...

#feedback #clarification

Getting feedback right Part 1 - Why do we give it?

Mar 04, 2014 | Category: assessment

It's become a truism that feedback is the most important activity that teachers engage in. Feedback, we are repeatedly told, is tremendously powerful and therefore teachers must do more of it. Certain...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #feedback

AfL: cargo cult teaching?

Aug 31, 2013 | Category: assessment

OK, so here's a quick summary of the story so far: A few days ago I suggested in a blog post that maybe AfL 'wasn't all that'. Lots of lovely people kindly got in touch to point out that I clearly had...

#AfL #Dylan Wiliam #feedback #Gordon Baillie

Feedback: it's better to receive than to give

Feb 20, 2012 | Category: assessment

As every teacher ought to already know, feedback and formative assessment are the most powerful, most effective things you can be doing. This means we need to be taking every opportunity to let our s...

#Hattie #praise #feedback