Thanks to everyone who attended Thursday’s webinars and special thanks to Julie Canniff, Sara Needleman, and Lisa Hogan for their contributions to the conversation about giving and getting feedback. Below are some links and notes related to topics we discussed.
The Effect of Feedback on Learning
- Dylan Wiliam and Paul Black, Inside the Black Box
- Kappan article, “Working Inside the Black Box.” The full text of this article is available as a PDF through MARVEL. Authenticate to MARVEL first and then click here.
- Susan Brookhart, How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students
Evaluative vs. Descriptive Feedback
- Product descriptors and rubrics (highlight for descriptive feedback)
- For copies of documents that Julie and Sara shared, contact me and I will forward your request to them.
- Anne Davies – Assessment for Learning
Establish Criteria
- 6+1 Traits of Writing
- Look at examplars
- Have students contribute to building a rubric (Jill Spencer says, “Also, I’ve found that taking time to reflect with questions like…Why is it important to use criteria? Why is quality work important? These questions begin to help students see the purpose for their efforts.”
- Rubistar
Teaching students to give feedback
- Laurie Walsh’s document, How do you comment on a classmate’s writing? (Thanks, Laurie!)
- Give kids sentence starters based on your criteria or model like 6+1 Traits
- Create a culture where kids care about their work and agree on criteria that is not personal but that really describes high-quality work.
Ways to give feedback digitally
- NoteShare – Voice Memo
- Pages (and other word processing programs) – use callouts in different colors
- Use markup and annotation tools in Preview for PDFs.
- Some Studywiz activities are good for feedback.
- Lisa Hogan suggests using callouts to have students self-assess. They use callouts to point to evidence that they have met the criteria for high-quality work.
Online programs that give students feedback
- MyAccess
- Criterion®
- Class Blogs
- Online writing sites where students can submit writing
Recordings of the webinar will be available in a few days on the Webcasts Archive page of this blog. Please join me again on February 25 when we will talk about drafting, revising and editing.
