Which Strategies Will Provide Evidence of Student Learning? Providing Feedback Providing Recognition

Strategy Once you and your students have clear learning targets, the next step is to determined if the students have learn them by selecting the means of obtaining evidence of learning and giving feedback.

Feedback Some researchers believe that providing feedback is the most powerful thing that a classroom teacher can do to enhance achievement. Effective feedback results in a 32 percentile gain.

Feedback should be corrective. Effective Feedback Feedback should be corrective. Provide students with an explanation of what they are doing is accurate or not accurate. Asking students to keep working on a task until they succeed enhances achievement even more. Just telling students answers are right or wrong drops achievement by 3 percentile points.

Effective Feedback Feedback should be timely. Timing of feedback is critical to improving achievement. Feedback given immediately is best. The more delay in feedback the less improvement on achievement.

Feedback should be specific. Effective Feedback Feedback should be specific. Feedback should be given on exactly what the student knows or needs to improve. Just getting a score or how the score stands in relationship to other student scores is not effective. Rubrics is a powerful tool.

Effective Feedback Students can provide some of their own feedback. Self-evaluation has a desirable effect.

Technology is especially effective in providing feedback. Effective Feedback Technology is especially effective in providing feedback.

Providing Recognition Personalizing Recognition Make recognition as personal as possible. Reward works if based on the attainment of a performance standard. (not just doing an activity but successful completion) Providing recognition for attainment of a goal not only enhances achievement but stimulates motivation.

Providing Recognition Pause, Prompt, and Praise Pause: Teacher stops student during task and discuss. Prompt: Teacher provides suggestions Praise: Teacher praises students if performance improves.

Providing Recognition Abstract/verbal recognition is most effective. It should be specific and to individual students. Concrete/tangible rewards are valuable and have their place in the classroom. It should be for attaining a goal and not simply for completing an activity.

Providing Recognition Technology can expand ways to provide recognition.