Feedback Cycles

Feedback and Its Importance:

Everyone involved with teaching and learning know that feedback is crucial - in some cases learning requires feedback.

Hattie and Timperley (2009) wrote a powerful meta-study that determined that all feedback is not equal. Feedback presented in the right way and consistently can have a direct impact on student learning. They present their findings in the form of three key questions that should drive feedback loops during any learning cycle. We want to focus all your energy on learning and reflecting on these three questions (and supplementals) because they encapsulate the most important aspects of how to reflect and structure feedback.

Key Questions (to lead discussions with students)	Supplemental Questions
1. Where am I going? (the goals)	What is the goal?	What defines quality work?	What difficulties should I be aware of?
2. How am I going?	How did I do?	What did I do well?	Where did I miss the mark and how?
3. Where to next?	How can I improve?	Does this info impact future assignments?	How can I take my learning to the next level?

As you are processing these questions about feedback please consider the following additional questions:

1. When and how are you providing feedback on formatives during the learning cycle? Is it timely and specific?

2. When and how are you providing feedback on summatives and retakes during the learning cycle? Is it timely and specific?

3. Are you teaching students when applicable to begin questioning their own performance during a learning cycle?

4. Are you utilizing self-reflective activities and exercises to help empower your students to do more of this questioning on their own?

Consider as well the feedback typology summary provided in 3.0 resources. This is from The Feedback Process by Joellen Killion (2019). Thinking about where your feedback falls on this continuum can be helpful in knowing when to move from evaluation to learning and helping learners move from partnered responsibility to individual responsibility.

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Resources

For those who want to read further before submitting your evidence for this tenet, we've included the referenced article above and a few others from Edutopia that we felt would provide good background or ideas for this tenet. Please take a deeper dive as needed.

The Power of Feedback by John Hattie & Helen Timperley (2007)

Seven Types of Feedback by Grant Wiggins (2012)

Starting Student Feedback Loops by Taylor Meredith (2015)

Making Sure Your Students Are Actually Processing Feedback by Sarah Gonser (2020)

Using Videos to Give Students Personalized Feedback by Lee Ferguson (2021)

Continuously Refine Your Practice With Student Feedback by Sarah Gonser (2021)