Teacher Feedback to Improve Pupil Learning: EEF's guidance
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- 1.1 Introduction: The importance of meaningful feedback
- 1.2 R1: Lay the foundations for effective feedback
- 1.3 R2: Deliver appropriately timed feedback that focuses on moving learning forward
- 1.4 R3: Plan for how pupils will receive and use feedback
- 1.5 R4: Carefully consider how to use purposeful, and time-efficient, written feedback
- 1.6 R5: Carefully consider how to use purposeful verbal feedback
- 1.7 R6: Design a school feedback policy that prioritises and exemplifies the principles of effective feedback
Teacher Feedback to Improve Pupil Learning | EEF
Introduction: The importance of meaningful feedback
[Feedback, done well] supports pupil progress, building learning, addressing misunderstandings, and thereby closing the gap between where a pupil is and where the teacher wants them to be.
The timely practice app was built to enable:
Teaching small bites from each topic on the existing learning foundations + more returning to teach more on the topic more frequently than annually.
An increasing interval retrieval practice program, for everything that is taught and all the mathematics that the learner already knew will embed the learning into long term memory most efficiently.
The time in the lesson, where learners are engaged in retrieval practice, so the teacher can give feedback
Reducing the interval between one practice question and the next after feedback, so the learner can more easily remember and apply the feedback
applying this will reduce the need for feedback to a manageable amount.
Feedback in timely practice will often “fix learning” better than reteaching the topic next term.
R1: Lay the foundations for effective feedback
Before providing feedback, teachers should provide high quality instruction, including the use of formative assessment strategies.
The timely practice app was built to enable:
Teaching small bites from each topic on the existing learning foundations + more returning to teach more on the topic more frequently than annually.
An increasing interval retrieval practice program, for everything that is taught and all the mathematics that the learner already knew will embed the learning into long term memory most efficiently
R2: Deliver appropriately timed feedback that focuses on moving learning forward
Feedback should focus on moving learning forward, targeting the specific learning gaps that pupils exhibit.
Feedback in timely practice is directed to answering specific question types independently and accurately.
R3: Plan for how pupils will receive and use feedback
Implement strategies that encourage learners to welcome feedback.
Learners know that unless their teacher decides that a bite of learning is best learned later, they will continue to get practice questions on the bite. Answering independently and accurately increases the interval between one practice and the next. We hope teachers are able to share that they do it this way, to make sure every learner makes the best progress that they can
Teachers should also provide opportunities for pupils to use feedback.
The 5 to 15 minutes that teachers set aside every lesson for timely practice (retrieval practice or pre assess) is the best time for one to one feedback-dialogue.
R4: Carefully consider how to use purposeful, and time-efficient, written feedback
We recommend teacher only give verbal feedback and use the time freed up to do assessment.
R5: Carefully consider how to use purposeful verbal feedback
We recommend teacher only give verbal feedback and use the time freed up to do assessment.
R6: Design a school feedback policy that prioritises and exemplifies the principles of effective feedback
In classes using timely practice, teachers should only be expected to assess timely practice assignments (not practise-learn worksheets, nor end of unit tests).