Definition:
Feedback in the classroom is defined as “information allowing a learner to reduce the gap between what is evident currently and what could or should be the case”. Specifically, feedback is information provided by an agent (e.g., teacher, peer, book, parent, self/experience) regarding aspects of one’s performance or understanding that reduces the discrepancy between what is understood and what is aimed to be understood.
There are many strategies to maximize the power of feedback:
focus feedback on the task not the learner
provide elaborated feedback
present elaborated feedback in manageable chunks
be specific and clear with feedback messages
keep feedback as simple as possible
give unbiased, objective feedback
promote a learning goal orientation via feedback
provide feedback after learners have attempted a solution
Hattie emphasized that the most powerful feedback is that given from the student to the teacher. This feedback allows teachers to see learning through the eyes of their students. It makes learning visible and facilitates the planning of next steps. The feedback that students receive from their teachers is also vital. It enables students to progress towards challenging learning intentions and goals.
Descriptive feedback is closely related to providing formative assessment.
What is the goal?
Where are you in relation to it?
What can you do to close the gap?
Use speech to text add-ons to give feedback. In his blog, Eric Curts shares different ways to make comments on Google Docs.
Use the Chrome extension to provide video feedback.
e-Comments is a Google Chrome extension that offers three great ways to add comments to Google Docs (text, audio, and video).