Phase Three: Feedback and Reflection

What is Feedback?

Feedback in learning refers to the process of providing students with information about their performance on academic tasks, assessments or other learning experiences. This feedback is intended to help students understand their strengths and weaknesses and to help them improve their learning and performance over time.

Hattie and Timperley (2007) report on research aimed at identifying those influences that are most effective in improving student achievement. They reviewed 196 studies on feedback and determined that effective feedback can almost double the average student growth over a school year.

What does good feedback do?

• It generates information about the learner’s performance that the learner can respond to in their next learning engagement of a similar type.

• It generates information about performance relative to the learning goals communicated.

• It generates information from the evidence of learning.

• The information can readily be shared with teaching staff, support staff and parents.

• The information is framed in such a way that it encourages changes in student learning behaviour and classroom teaching practices.