Effective feedback
Effective Feedback
Key questions:
- How many types of feedback do you and your students engage in?
- Which type of feedback do students find the most effective?
- How do you factor in the emotions involved in giving and receiving feedback?
- How do you balance the advice you want to give with the capacity students will have to process information?
- How do you ensure feedback is constructive and actionable?
- How do you build time and space in the curriculum for discussion of and action on feedback?
Solent Best Practice
Paul Joseph-Richards describes the benefits of using audio feedback.
The video is from a Solent Learning and Teaching blogpost.
Three by Three Feedback
The 3 x 3 x 3 template includes:
- 3 strengths
- 3 weaknesses
- 3 feed forward
The format enables tutors to provide less but better quality, more focused and actionable feedback on students’ assessed work. Staff that have started using the 3 x 3 x 3 template report that it takes a little more time to get going and build up a bank of statements but then marking becomes less onerous. Students and external examiners have reacted really positively towards the enhanced feedback, reporting that it has increased the usefulness of the feedback and its consistency across their learning.
Effective feedback
A selection of strategies for creating dialogue with students.
Resources
- D Boud and E Molly (2012) Rethinking models of feedback for learning: the challenge of design
- D Nicol (2010) From monologue to dialogue: improving written feedback processes in mass higher education
- S Bloxam and L Campbell (2010) Generating dialogue in assessment feedback: exploring the use of interactive cover sheet
- D Carless, D Salter, M Yang and J Lam (2010) Developing sustainable feedback practices