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Does your feedback feed forward?
Eddy White
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University
JALT 2008 International Conference
on Language Teaching/Learning Tokyo, Japan
Feedback on law student essay
“Nonsense, rubbish, disastrous! This leads nowhere. It is only your minimal knowledge that prevents me from giving you an F”.
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(in Raaheim, 2006)
Targets
• Feedback background
• My feedback research
• Your feedback practices
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Targets
Feedback background
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What is feedback? (Wiggins, 2004)
• Feedback is information about what was and was not accomplished, given a specific goal.
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Feedback: summative vs formative
• Summative feedback is a summary of students final output or performance, includes a grade or score
• It may help shape the next performance or process, but it is too late to play a part on the task being evaluated
• Formative feedback - response to student work, while it is in progress
• - identifies strong and weak aspects of performance, gives suggestions for improvement
• - plays a part in ‘forming’ or shaping student response to the task being worked on
• - aims to draw out students’ best possible performance
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Targets
Your feedback practices
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Some key feedback questions
1. What do we say to students about their work?
2. How do we say it? 3. Do they take any notice? 4. How much does it help their learning
payoff? 5. How well does it relate to students’
evidence of achievement of the intended learning outcomes?
6. How efficient is it for us?
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Assessment methods in your courses?
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What formative feedback practices
do you use in your
courses?
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discussion questions 1. What feedback practices do you
find to be effective in your courses (i.e. that promote student learning)?
2. What feedback-related problems do you experience in the courses that you teach?
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Targets
Feedback background
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Feedback: student dissatisfaction
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Feedback: Student dissatisfaction
• The literature shows students are dissatisfied with feedback in terms of:
1. Lacking specific advice to improve
2. Being difficult to interpret
3. Having a negative impact on self-perception and confidence
(Carless, 2006)
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Quality feedback 15
Quality feedbacK:4 Criteria
• 1. It must be timely • 2. It must be specific • 3. It must be understandable to
the receiver • 4. It must allow the student to act
on the feedback (refine, revise, practice and retry)
(Wiggins, 1997)
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• Feedback is like fish, it goes off
after a week.
Sadler (1989) • Sadler
identified three conditions necessary for students to benefit from feedback.
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To benefit from feedback students must:
1. Possess a concept of the goal/standard or reference level being aimed for
2. Compare the actual (or current) level of performance with that goal or standard
3. Engage in appropriate action which leads to some closure of the gap
(Sadler, 1989)
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The power of feedback (Sadler,1989)
It is closing the gap between where the students are and where they are aiming to be
that leads to the power of feedback.
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Feedforward • Providing useful information to both the teacher and the student that will help them recognize where gaps in student learning are and use that data to move forward with the intent of closing the gaps.
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Feedforward • -feedback that is “forward-looking so that it can improve students’ learning and enhance their future performance on assessed tasks.”
How Assessment Supports Learning, Carless et al. (2006,)
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3 major feedback questions 1. Where am I going? (the goals) =
feedup
2. How am I going? = feedback
3. Where to next? = feedforward
(Hattie and Timperley, 2007)
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(Hattie and Timperley, 2007)
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Focus on Formative Feedback (Shute, 2008), Review of Educational Research
• “The premise underlying most of the research conducted in this area is that good feedback can significantly improve learning processes and outcomes, if delivered correctly”.
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Feedback which supports learning
1. Is sufficient (in frequency; detail) 2. Is provided quickly enough to be useful 3. Focuses on learning rather than on marks 4. Is linked to assessment criteria/expected
outcomes 5. Makes sense to students 6. Is received by students and attended to 7. Is acted upon to improve performance
Targets
My feedback research
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Teacher written
feedback on student essays
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Tokyo Woman’s Christian University
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Junior Composition
- third-year Academic Writing class
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Junior Composition class
essay cycle
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essay topic: slang
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essay topic: slang
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Extract of essay first draft with teacher feedback (blue)
Feedback end sheet
- attached to the first essay draft - uses same criteria as the summative assessment for the final draft - a writing guide for students - a teaching tool
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Does the feedback feed forward?
Students’ response to teacher feedback
research focus
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feedback intervention (FI)
• Actions taken by an external agent to provide information regarding some aspect of one’s task performance.
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(Kluger & DeNisi, 1996)
First draft Final draft
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first draft (thesis statement)
final draft
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successful revisions (closing gaps)
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unsuccessful revisions (open gaps)
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Reasons for unsuccessful revisions? • Studies of second language writing show
that ESL students are willing to follow closely the feedback provided by teachers, but such commentary “had the potential of miscommunicating and of being misunderstood.” (Lee & Schallert, 2008)
• “Students need to have both the ‘will’ and the ‘skill’ to be successful in classrooms.” (Pintrich & De Groot, 1990)
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My research concludes . . .
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• Most revisions linked to the feedback provided did lead to text improvement in final drafts (‘closing the gaps’)
• Supports empirical research that teacher feedback in multiple-draft classrooms does lead to improved student writing
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Conclusion 47
We learn faster, and much more effectively, when we
have a clear sense of how well we are doing and what we
might need to do in order to improve.
(Carless, 2006)
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Two questions for teachers to consider . . .
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• How well are you doing with the feedback you provide to students?
• Does your feedback feed forward?
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Feedforward
• Thank you for your time and attention
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References • Carless, D. (2006). Differing perceptions in the feedback process. Studies in Higher
Education, 31(2), 219-223. • Gibbs, G. & Simpson, C. (2004-05). Conditions under which assessment supports learning.
Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Issue 1, 3-29. • Hattie, J., & Timperly, H. (2007). The power of feedback. Review of Educational
Research, 77(1), 81-112. • Kluger, A. N., & DeNisi, A. (1996). The effects of feedback interventions on perfor- • mance: A historical review, a meta-analysis, and a preliminary feedback interven- • tion theory. Psychological Bulletin, 119(2), 254–284. • Lee, G. & Schallert, D. (2008). Meeting in the margins: Effects of the teacher student
relationship on revision processes of EFL college students taking a composition course. Journal of Second Language Writing, 17, 165-182.
• Pintrich, P.R., & DeGroot, E.V. (1990). Motivational and self-regulated learning components of classroom academic performance. Journal of Educational Psychology, 82, 33-40.
• Raaheim, A. (2006). Do students profit from feedback? Seminar.net, Vol. 2, Issue 2 • Sadler, R. (1989). Formative Assessment and the Design of Instructional Systems.
Instructional Science,18, 119-144. • Shute, V. (2008). Focus on formative feedback. Review of Educational Research, 78(1),
153-189. • Wiggins, G. (1997). Feedback: How learning occurs. In: E. E. Chaffee (Ed.), Assessing
impact: Evidence and action (pp. 31–39). Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education.
• Wiggins, G. (2004) . Assessment as Feedback. New Horizons for Learning, http::www.newhorizons.org.
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