Grading & feedback

As an educator, it’s crucial to not only give students feedback but seek it from them, too. Here’s how to overcome five common barriers to getting meaningful feedback from students, and how to use self-awareness to help improve your teaching practices.

Removing grades can have unexpected results

When students respond to each other’s writing, it’s often more helpful to the responders than the receivers, writes Patricia A. Dunn.

How to get feedback on your grading system

Discover the three common mistakes teachers make when giving feedback to students. Learn how to make feedback more effective and sustainable for student growth and development.

Jennifer Lemke, University of Nebraska at Omaha Chris Wilcoxen, University of Nebraska at Omaha Jeni Langfeld, University of Nebraska at Omaha Key Statement: This article explores feedback structures that contribute to students' understanding and performance. Keywords: Feedback, Timing, Peer Feedback Background As educators, an expectation is to provide feedback to students. This includes any information provided to learners about their performance and understanding of an assignment, task, or ac

Navigating the sneaking sense that students haven’t even read your comments, much less revised their work.

Like with many effective learning strategies, what students think is helping them learn is not what actually helps them learn. In two experiments presented by Hillary Mullet and colleagues (2014, 1 ), University engineering students received relatively immediate feedback or delayed feedback …

In this episode, Kasey chats with Shake Up Learning Team member, Susan Vincentz about her favorite takeaways from the FETC conference. Susan shares some awesome feedback tools from her own presentation, a little inspiration from the opening keynote, a new novel app, and some important AI thoughts. Come learn with us and get FETC takeaways!

Prototyping the most important parts of your alternative grading system

Breana Bayraktar, Kiruthika Ragupathi, and Katherine A. Troyer share preliminary results of their research on instructors' beliefs about how feedback helps students manage their own learning.

Years ago, as I shifted toward empowering students, I ask myself the question, "What am I doing for students that they could be doing for themselves?" One of the most glaring answers was assessment. So,

Teachers are experimenting with video feedback as a replacement for traditional written mark-ups. There’s evidence that video grading does more to motivate students than written edits — and it can also save teachers time.

A classic study finds some eye-opening effects of different feedback on learning.

How can our grading practices remain true to who we are as teachers, while balancing institutional constraints & respecting the role of evaluation in helping students develop as learners?

Through our feedback, we invite students into a conversation about their work.

Instead of rating and judging a person's performance in the past, feedforward focuses on their development in the future.

When students receive feedback on their work, what do they do with it? Feedback literacy encompasses the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that students need to appreciate the value of feedback, engage in feedback processes, and take responsibility for their own learning and development.