Feedback
A recent study, which backs up a earlier research, shows that giving students marks out of 10 does not improve their performance.
Marks and comments together are equally pointless. When students get both, the first thing they do is look at the mark. Then they look at their classmate's mark. They hardly ever look at the comment.
Read more of this article here.
Working inside the black box by professors Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam of King's College, London University.
How effective is your use of feedback in everyday practice? Check using the progression table below:
Oral Feedback Progression Table
Written Feedback Progression Table
Feedback Practical Strategies
•Comment-only marking
•Focused marking
•Explicit reference to criteria
•Suggestions on how to improve
–‘Strategy cards’ ideas for improvement
–Not giving complete solutions
•Re-timing assessment
–(eg two-thirds-of-the-way-through-a-topic test)
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