The 12 Touchstones of Good Teaching by Goodwin Bryan;Hubbell Elizabeth Ross; & Elizabeth Ross Hubbell

Author:Goodwin, Bryan;Hubbell, Elizabeth Ross; & Elizabeth Ross Hubbell [Goodwin, Bryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Education
ISBN: 1388955
Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
Published: 2013-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

I keep feedback formative and nonevaluative.

Grant Wiggins (2012) notes that feedback is not the same thing as “advice, praise, and evaluation.” “Basically,” he writes, “feedback is information about how we are doing in our efforts to reach a goal” (p. 11). With that in mind, feedback that is summative in nature tends to fall flat because it doesn't tell students what to do with the information. Consider, for example, what is arguably the most striking finding from the study of Israeli 6th graders mentioned previously. It found that adding numeric scores appended to written comments wiped out the benefits of the comments altogether, presumably because “students who got the high scores didn't need to read the comments and students who got low scores didn't want to” (Wiliam, 2011, p. 109).

The bottom line appears to be this: the best feedback isn't a score or grade; it's guidance on what students are doing well and what opportunities they have for improvement. That's why it's important for teachers to provide students with feedback that includes information they can use to guide and self-correct their learning, not to size up their performance while it's still a work in progress. Figure 9 provides some examples of how teachers can use feedback that offers clear guidance.

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