How best to improve student performance? A recent study of the various factors that we generally expect to be effective (such as teacher-pupil ratio, school culture and so on) concluded that actually, the thing that has the greatest impact on performance is the quality of the feedback we give on a student’s work.
Improving the quality of feedback is the most cost-effective strategy for lifting our students’ game, and the best use of teachers’ time.
Of course, we have long understood the importance of feedback, and we know that we should criticise lightly and lay on praise with a large trowel. But it turns out that there is more to feedback than meets the eye.
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