7 Giving feedback
Feedback is information that you give to your students that helps them close the gap between
where they are now with their work, and where they could be. The goal of feedback is to provide
students with insight that helps them to improve their performance.
Giving positive feedback.
Correction techniques.
Evaluation and testing.
Providing feedback means giving students an explanation of what they are doing correctly and
incorrectly. However, the focus of the feedback should be based essentially on what the students
is doing right. It is most productive to a student’s learning when they are provided with an
explanation and example as to what is accurate and inaccurate about their work.
When feedback is given immediately after showing proof of learning, the student responds
positively and remembers the experience about what is being learned in a confident manner. If
we wait too long to give feedback, the moment is lost and the student might not connect the
feedback with the action.
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