Feedback
Effective Teaching & Learning Practice | Students Learning to Learn
Feedback
What is Feedback?
Feedback is information provided by an
agent (e.g., teacher, peer, book, parent,
self/experience) regarding aspects of one’s
performance or understanding.
Effective Feedback is:
Timely
John Hattie 2012
Feedback is evidence about:
Where am I going?
How am I going?
Focused on product/
behavior – not on the
student
The Power of Feedback
Where to next?
Hattie, The Power of Feedback
The simplest prescription for improving
education must be. . . Providing information
about what a student does and does not
understand, and what direction the student
must take to improve.
Purpose
The main purpose of feedback is to reduce
discrepancies between current
understanding or performance and some
desired level of performance or goal.
Hattie & Timperley 2007
Task feedback points to
ideas that work and ideas
that don’t work.
Process feedback gives
cues for searching and
strategizing.
Self-regulation feedback
reinforces engagement and
persistence.
Hattie, 2007
Effect Size
Feedback
(.73 effect size)
Results
When feedback and corrective procedures
are used, most students can attain the same
level of achievement as the top 20% of
Bellon, Bellon & Blank
students.
The contents of this presentation were developed under a grant from the US Department of
Education to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
(#H323A120018). However, these contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the US
Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.