a. How do you give feedback?

b. How do students react to your feedback?

c. How do you and the students know if they are making progress?
d. Are students engaged with the feedback process? How do you know?
How do students know?

Comments on student feedback:

As Robert Allen said:

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

When I use to teach at the university level, I used to

give feedback only before an assignment or project
is handed out.
At IB schools, I may have to tweak this method into
prior, during and after the project or assignment is
done.
Feedback shouldn’t just be recommendations but
also include approaches to teaching elements as well
as approaches to learning elements.
I could also incorporate rubric criteria in the
feedback to help students better answer the question
The main issue is to what extent do students absorb
my feedback…
I believe a good method of incorporating feedbacks
other than peer corrections would be to show the
difference between the grade of a student who
incorporated the past feedbacks into his answer
compared to the grade of a student who hadn’t.
Formulas:
Student + Integrated Feedback = Better essay
(therefore higher grade)
Student – Integrated Feedback (Defensive) =
Average essay (therefore lower grade)

An essential point as well would be if my

students actually understood what my feedback
refers to (and to what extent)?

Perhaps a way to gage this would be to ask them

to describe the feedback the way they
understood it and how does the feedback relate
to the elements in the question.

As long as my students see the benefit of a

teacher’s feedback in improving their grades, my
job is done!

Finally, they may also have their own feedback

(in addition to mine). It would be interesting to
listen to their additional questions.