Tie the feedback to a specific learning goal.
Feedback should tell students where they are on the continuum.
Provide information that students can use to improve their performance.
What actions do you want students to take?
What are the growth areas and places where additional skill-building should take place?
Deliver feedback on student work in a timely manner.
Provide opportunities for students to participate in generating feedback rather than acting as passive receivers. For example, "What are you noticing about this?" or "Why did you decide to do it this way?"
Feedback doesn't always have to be tied to a grade.
Help students self-regulate. (Meet the Single Point Rubric, 6 Reasons to Try a Single Point Rubric)
When giving students feedback, take the time to think about what will help students actually improve. Feedback needs to focus on something the student did well along with suggestions for how to do better next time.
There are numerous ways to gather feedback from students within Schoology and by combining Schoology and 3rd Party Resources. The key point is to offer numerous opportunities for students to provide feedback and reflect on their work. Form the right question is key to gather understanding and feedback from students.
In Schoology:
Discussions: Use Discussions to check for understanding, gauge students emotional health, and help develop community (See questioning resources below)
Create a Test/Quiz or Assessment with zero points to gather student feedback
Create an Assignment for students to use the Create (type) option to provide a response
3rd Party Resources*
Tools such as FlipGrid, EdPuzzle and Microsoft or Google Forms allow for educators to gather student feedback either academic or social emotional. *Please check with district technology department before using any 3rd party tool.
Microsoft or Google Forms - create feedback forms for students to reflect. Tie the questions to learning targets, use the question formats for ranking as well as for text responses. Student responses are visible to the teacher only.
FlipGrid allows for video responses. Again questioning techniques need to be considered in order to provide learners an explicit question to answer. FlipGrid can be to gather knowledge, check for understanding, and student feedback. Student responses are visible to the teacher and students.
NearPod allows for educators to provide content and embed questions to gather understanding and feedback from students. Student responses are visible to the teacher only.
Parker Ormerod: parker_ormerod@boces.monroe.edu
Doreen Pietrantoni: doreen_pietrantoni@boces.monroe.edu