All Work Should Be Play

5 types of feedback a teacher should give students

By Aditya Shukla. psychologist

Education

Discover them

Summative feedback

Formative feedback

Process feedback

Real-time feedback

Outcome feedback

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Summative feedback

Summarizes learning outcomes like exam scores, it is offered at the end of a class or semester. It doesn't improve learning, just measures it.

Exam scores

Focus: Measure learning outcome

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Formative feedback

Revision about foundational concepts and priority topics to improve a students understanding

Discussions, points

Focus: Revise key concepts

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Real-time feedback

This is instant correction of an error so a student doesn't learn the error or unlearns a mistake.

Instant corrections

Focus: Precision

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Outcome feedback

Clear indicator that a student has correctly solved or explain a question. It is a correct/not-correct feedback with a follow up of "try again"

Wrong, try again

Focus: self-directed learning

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Process feedback

Evaluating how a student approaches a problem and conducts the in-between steps. This is a detailed feedback about the learning journey of a topic.

Check your steps

Focus: method for answers/conclusions

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