Feedback students actually use: timely and specific, acted on, including peer and exemplar-based feedback.
Not all feedback helps.
Open workshop →WorkshopStudents giving each other feedback can be powerful, for the giver as much as the receiver, but only when they know what quality looks like and how to give useful feedback.
Open workshop →WorkshopFeedback only improves learning if students understand it and act on it, yet much careful feedback is glanced at and ignored.
Open workshop →WorkshopStudents cannot produce quality work they have never seen.
Open workshop →WorkshopHere is a counterintuitive finding: when you put a grade and a comment on the same work, students read the grade and ignore the comment.
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