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Your go-to guide for using classroom assessment as a teaching and learning tool! Using seven strategies of assessment for learning and five keys of quality assessment as a foundation, this book presents a model that focuses on assessment to help students understand their progress on their learning journey and the next steps needed to get there. Full of high-impact classroom practices, this book also offers: • Clear and relevant examples of assessment for learning strategies in specific subject matter contexts • Visual learning progressions for use in a self-assessment checklist and professional development • Additional material and examples on an author-created website
Putting Feedback Into Action
Putting Feedback Into Action
Key Takeaways
Descriptive feedback during the learning process is a high-impact strategy.
The way we provide feedback to our learners can reinforce or challenge their goal orientations and mindsets. Many of our feedback strategies (e.g., scoring or grading too soon, attaching points or grades to all learning tasks, overfeedbacking, vague comments, waiting until the summative assessment to provide descriptive feedback) reinforce either ego or task or performance orientations and fixed mindsets.
Only a portion of the work on effective feedback is about what the educator does or does not do in giving the feedback. Perhaps the most important part of the work on effective feedback is how receptive the learner is to feedback and what the learner does ...
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