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Tag: feedback strategies
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An often-overlooked relationship that draws together effective feedback and the opening up of success criteria
Success criteria are the things against which work is judged. If you hit the success criteria – or surpass them – fantastic. If you fall short, then you have something…
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Is it worth using written feedback to focus on mistakes? (Spoiler alert: Yes)
One area on which you might like to focus your written feedback is mistakes. This can take two forms: praising learners and suggesting where they could make improvements. In the…
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Simplify your marking in a matter of minutes. 150 exemplar targets, covering ten essential areas of learning, ready for you to start using today.
Targets are central to feedback. Through targets, we help learners direct their future effort. Targets give learners access to expertise, helping them to do things differently, and better. Here are…
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Let me do some of the work for you! 150 exemplar questions you can use as the basis of high-quality feedback right now, with little or no adaptation necessary
You can use questions as a type of feedback, although they do not work in the same way as traditional feedback. The sentence types make different demands on the individuals…
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How can marking for target implementation change the game when it comes to maximising the impact of your feedback?
We set learners targets with the expectation that they will try to implement these. If they do, so our thinking goes, then their work will improve, and they will make…
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What happens when you ask learners to tell you what to mark?
Usually, it falls to us to decide what to mark. And, invariably, we decide to mark most things, if not all. While we might not give equal weight to all…
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Technological breakthroughs make verbal marking a new frontier you can use to support the learners you teach
Developments in technology mean we can now capture verbal marking of written work. For example, learners submit their work electronically, you read through it, and you then record yourself marking…
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Speed up your marking while helping learners develop a better understanding of their work
When we highlight learner work the eye is immediately drawn to the different colours on the page. This can help learners to better understand what feedback you are giving or…
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Create a strengths chart and instantly cut hours off your marking workload
Instead of spending time thinking about the strengths demonstrated by a piece of learner work, create a chart containing a wide range of strengths appropriate to the subject or subjects…
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How can you unlock the secrets of the checklist to power up the impact of your feedback?
You can use feedback checklists to train learners to more accurately assess, improve, and refine their own work. They are a tool you can teach learners to use and which,…