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EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK:
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This is an inspiring video from researcher John Hattie who asks teachers the most relevant question in our profession: "Do you know your impact?" Using data from pre and post assessments that shows that students improved is NOT a valid measurement. His message to teachers is almost everything teachers do has a positive impact on student achievement. The key is to know the size of the impact. The average effect size of feedback on achievement is .79 which is twice the average effect! This places feedback among the top ten influences on achievement.
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The key is how to provide feedback without praise and judgement (No more "Good job!", right?). Hattie suggests truly effective feedback must help students answer the 3 questions above. My goal was to assist students in monitoring their own learning process and I decided that my students might not understand those reflective questions so I created my own set of 3 questions which mirror Hattie's.
After my students created their own visual graph with their own reading scores, they used the reflective graphic organizer below. |

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DATA CONVERSATIONSInitially, I sat with each student individually with this worksheet and their own graph in front of them. I wrote down bullet point notes about what we talked about. In subsequent months, students answered the feedback questions themselves and then discussed them with me.
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