Giving Effective Feedback to Your Students Video Series

Giving Effective Feedback to Your Students: The Impact on Student Achievement

This video explains how effective feedback leads to increased student achievement. Susan Brookhart explains

• The relationship of effective feedback and formative assessment.
• The impact of effective feedback upon student achievement.
• How effective feedback helps students improve their performance.
• Characteristics of effective feedback.
• Four key priorities for effective feedback: timing, amount, mode, and audience.

Giving Effective Feedback to Your Students: Seven Key Factors to Ensure Effective Feedback Video

This video's classroom scenes demonstrate to teachers in every grade level and subject area, the seven key factors that ensure effective feedback:

• Focus—on the work itself, process, student self-regulation, student progress, or a combination.
• Comparison—criterion-based, norm-referenced, or compared to a student’s past performance.
• Function—to emphasize description rather than judgment.
• Valence (emotional resonance)—using positive comments and balancing negative comments with recommendations for improvement.
• Clarity—giving the right amount and content and addressing the student’s developmental level.
• Specificity—specific enough so that students know what to do.
• Tone—communicating respect and placing the student at the center of the learning process.

Giving Effective Feedback to Your Students: Tailoring Feedback to Content and Student Needs Video

This video demonstrates how educators can determine the effectiveness of the feedback they give, and how they can adjust their feedback style to accommodate individual learners, so as to give the best kind of feedback every time. Classroom scenes demonstrate how to use effective written and oral feedback with successful, struggling, and English language learners. See how real teachers use feedback strategies to improve student achievement in all content areas and grade levels.

The videos in this series are informed by the book How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students, Second Edition. In this updated and expanded second edition of her best-selling book, Susan M. Brookhart offers enhanced guidance and three lenses for considering the effectiveness of feedback.

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Susan Brookhart is an independent educational consultant and author based in Helena, Montana. She currently serves as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Education at Duquesne University.

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