Offer
students descriptive feedback about where the student is in relation to a particular learning target.
In giving
students descriptive feedback, you have modeled the kind of thinking you want them to do as self - assessors.
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Don't put a grade on an assignment; just provide
descriptive feedback about where
student is, where they need to be and how to get there.
Give
descriptive feedback to
students: What is the goal?
Assessment expert Dylan Wiliam says that
student thinking is the primary goal for
descriptive feedback.
The post-test results showed that
students who received comments — that is,
descriptive feedback — reached the highest levels of achievement, one standard deviation higher than the others.
Descriptive feedback is essential for
students to understand how they can respond to Sadler's three questions; it is also one of the key components that lead to significant gains in
student achievement (Black & Wiliam, 1998).
A key ingredient of formative assessment is
descriptive feedback that identifies the
student's strengths and suggests what he or she needs to do to improve.
Certain
students are less likely to pay attention to
descriptive feedback if it is accompanied by a formal judgment, like a grade or an evaluative comment.
Providing
descriptive, actionable
feedback to
students that helps them understand their own learning and, through this understanding, learn better;
She offers seven strategies that teachers can use to involve
students in the assessment process and ensure that
students are the primary users of formative assessment information: (1) Provide a clear and understandable vision of the learning target; (2) Use examples of strong and weak work; (3) Offer regular
descriptive feedback; (4) Teach
students to self - assess and set goals; (5) Design lessons to focus on one aspect of quality at a time; (6) Teach
students focused revision; and (7) Engage
students in self - reflection and let them document and share their learning.
Because turning observations about
student reasoning into calculated instructional adjustments is often a difficult task, the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation has made available a number of resources designed to aid teachers in providing immediate,
descriptive feedback for redirecting
student learning.
But such comments — in which teachers offer advice, praise, criticism, or evaluation — don't provide the kind of
descriptive feedback that can help
students improve their performance, writes Grant Wiggins in this article.
Specific,
descriptive feedback linked to the targets of instruction and arising from the assessment items or rubrics communicates to
students in ways that enable them to immediately take action, thereby promoting further learning.
If
students are having trouble formulating hypotheses, they can refer to that portion of the scoring guide as they differentiate between strong and weak examples of hypotheses, practice drafting hypotheses, give one another
descriptive feedback on their drafts, and assess their own drafts» strengths and weaknesses.
This kind of assessment means
students receive informative,
descriptive feedback.
However, when
students are provided with
descriptive feedback, in a formative assessment classroom, they have a clearer idea of what they can do to increase their learning.
Descriptive feedback can also help foster learning by providing the tools necessary for
student self - reflection.
The purpose of
descriptive feedback, alongside clear learning targets, is to help
students answer «the following questions while they are learning: Where am I going... Where am I now... How can I close the gap between the two?»
Effective,
descriptive feedback also helps
students know what they can do the next time to get better.
Students need
descriptive feedback to know where they are now in relation to the learning target.
When
students are behaving responsibly, the teacher provides them with attention and specific
descriptive feedback on their behavior.
CHAPTER 1: Learning Targets CHAPTER 2: Checking for Understanding CHAPTER 3: Using Data with
Students CHAPTER 4: Models, Critique, and
Descriptive Feedback CHAPTER 5:
Student - Led Conferences CHAPTER 6: Celebrations of Learning CHAPTER 7: Passage Presentations with Portfolios CHAPTER 8: Standards - Based Grading
Using specific strategies, along with examples and links to printable resources, the authors assure that all teachers are able to gain the knowledge to recognize the true strength behind the intentional use of assessments and
descriptive feedback to continually guide the growth of their
students while intentionally connecting assessment to instruction.
Throughout a unit,
students receive
descriptive feedback, and the summative evaluation is completed using our online assessment program.
Then, frequent self - assessments provide
students (and teachers) with continual access to
descriptive feedback in amounts they can manage effectively without being overwhelmed.
Specific to the primary purpose of formative assessment is the opportunity for teachers to provide
descriptive feedback to
students.Rather than providing
students with a judgment that identifies an overall grade, score, or level (i.e. summative assessment), teachers focus on providing specific,
descriptive information to
students on how to keep learning and growing toward proficiency.
They are vigilant about noticing when
students «do right,» and they provide positive
descriptive feedback so
students can successfully recall or replicate the skill, knowledge, or behaviors in question.
In this video, 11th grade English Language Arts teacher Susan McCray from Casco Bay High School in Portland, ME, supports all
students in reaching writing standards through
descriptive feedback.