How can teachers

provide more
effective feedback to
students?
SDHDS Middle School Staff
04/05/22
Presented by Alison Sperling

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Objectives & Standards
Presentation Objectives
● Provide current research on student
feedback
● Provide tools to give more concrete
student feedback
● Reflect on the type of feedback given in
each class and how to elevate teacher
practices
Standards Addressed
● ISTE 1 - EDUCATOR AS LEARNER: I
continually improve my practice by
learning from others and exploring
promising practices that leverage
technology
● ISTE 4 - EDUCATOR AS COLLABORATOR:
I dedicate time to collaborate with
colleagues and students to improve
practice, discover and share resources
and ideas, and solve problems.to
improve student learning.
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In what ways are you Orally

Rubrics
giving feedback to Comments

students? Point Value Grades

Think, Pair, Share Completion Grades

Behavior/Participation Grades

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 Effective Feedback
“Seven Keys to Effective Feedback”
Goal-Referenced
(ASCD)
Tangible and Transparent
Actionable
User Friendly
Timely
On-Going
Consistent

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 Rubrics - How do they help?
Teachers Students Parents
● Assess assignments ● Understand expectations ● Understand their student’s
consistently from and components of an skill level and the progress
student-to-student. assignment. made over time.
● Save time in grading, both ● Become more aware of ● Actionable feedback to
short-term and long-term. their learning process and increase student progress.
● Give timely, effective progress. ● Feel more confident and
feedback and promote ● Improve work through knowledgeable about their
student learning in a timely and detailed student’s education.
sustainable way. feedback.
● Clarify expectations and
components of an
assignment for students

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Research Overview
1. Panadero and Jonsson (2013) - help students understand expectations and increase transparency

2. Reddy and Andrade (2010) - not just a grading system, gives valuable feedback

3. Andrade and Heritage (2017) - co-create rubrics with students

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Now You Try:
● What assignments do you
have that could benefit
from having a rubric?
● What wouldn’t do so well
with a rubric?
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Types of Rubric
Holistic Analytic Rubric

● Consider the work as a whole ● Consider one criteria for each section of
the rubric

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Now You Try:
What do you think are the
pros and cons of holistic
versus analytic rubrics?
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Rubric
Examples
Which categories
would work well in
your classroom
environment?

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Now You Practice!
We have handed out
some student
samples of their
written work. How
would you rate their
work in the following
categories?

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Speaking/Presenting Creating

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What other categories do we need?

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 Our “Homework”
Over the next two weeks, assign an activity that you will
grade using a rubric for each class. You will then upload
a link to the assignment, the rubric you used, and the

Example
four point scale grade that each student received so that
we can compare them across contents.

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