Providing Feedback

ETAP623 : Providing Feedback This page last changed on Jan 23, 2008 by wikiadm1. Providing many instances of feedback is the primary function of ongoing assessment. Feedback is how a student assesses their own understanding of the content. There are numerous methods to provide this feedback. These activities should identify for the students what they have come to understand and where more learning needs to happen. The purpose of this feedback is mainly to increase learning toward understanding. No longer should we think of assessing as just a means of evaluation. The time of checking knowledge and understanding with just tests and quizzes at the end of learning lessons needs to come to an end. What needs to take its place are experiences of ongoing assessment which help move student's learning forward. Below are three links to pages which discuss three techniques of providing feedback. Please move through each lesson in any order and then return here for a reflection on providing feedback. 3 techniques for providing Ongoing Assessment: Peer Assessment Self Assessment Teacher Assessment REFLECTION: 1. What have you learned about providing feedback in an ongoing manner? 2. What practices do you already incorporate in your current classroom and what will you be adding as a result of what you have learned? 3. How will your students benefit from these new practices? TYING IT TOGETHER: Please continue to Portfolios in Education to examine one very strong method of ongoing assessment. Teaching For Understanding: Ongoing Assessment Culminating Activity