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Feedback Strategies


Hello, 

This week I learned more about feedback, and specifically ways to give better feedback. Here I would like to share with you some of the articles I read and what I found useful or interesting.

"How To Give Students Specific Feedback That Actually Helps Them Learn" gave some general advice on what kinds of feedback should be given to help others. This included things that for the most part I had heard, such as making it goal oriented, actionable, and specific. Although this is good advice, it wasn't really things I hadn't heard before. Looking over at "Three Simple Frameworks for Feedback" I saw something that I wasn't really expecting. This article took some of the same ideas as "How To Give Students Specific Feedback That Actually Helps Them Learn" and provided specific tools (diagrams to be filled out, and phrases) that can help people put those ideas into action easily. I would definitely recommend taking a look at the charts and considering using them when you are giving feedback in this course or in other areas in general. They aren't specific to writing and really help jump start a conversation that could seem daunting to many. 

Photo: Feedback? by Josefine H. Åkerblom via Flickr 


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