Volume 1, Issue 5 – Giving Effective Feedback

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly.  Today we’ll be discussing the concept of giving effective academic feedback.

Feedback to students has a surprisingly large impact on their achievement. Some meta-analyses suggest feedback is among the top 5 to 10 influences on student achievement (Hattie, 1999). In an article published in the Review of Educational Research, University of Auckland researchers John Hattie and Helen Timperly suggest a model of giving feedback that maximizes its positive effects on students.

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