Tip: Assessing What You Value > Providing Feedback
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Providing feedback can significantly improve learners’ understanding, learning, and achievement. Consider the STAIRs of feedback.
When providing feedback, make sure it is:
- Specific: Tell learners specifically what they’re doing right, what they can improve on, and what they are doing differently than before to help them improve and develop a growth mindset.
- Timely: Learners who are given immediate feedback showed a significantly larger increase in performance than those who delayed feedback (Opitz et al., 2011).
- Advancement-focused: When giving feedback, it’s most helpful when framed around how well learners are doing at advancing towards or achieving a specific goal.
- Intentional: Be intentional about how and when you’re presenting feedback. It can potentially come across the wrong way and be counterproductive when learners feel too strictly monitored, that the feedback is an attempt to control or coerce them, or an uncomfortable sense of competition.
- Responsive: Have learners respond to the feedback. Allow them to ask questions, gain clarification, and deepen understanding of the content through the feedback you’re giving them.
Adapted from: Stenger, M. (2014). 5 research-based tips for providing students with meaningful feedback. Edutopia; George Lucas Educational Foundation. https://www.edutopia.org/blog/tips-providing-students-meaningful-feedback-marianne-stenger
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