The Grading Podcast 11 - Getting Started Part 6: Feedback - Giving It and Getting Students to Use It
Feedback is one of the four core pillars of Alternative Grading. In this episode, co-hosts Robert Bosley and Sharona Krinsky discuss what elements are included in effective feedback, evaluate what it takes to teach students to use it, and share specific tips and barriers such as where feedback appears in LMS systems and different types of feedback including self-reflection, peer review, and instructor-to-student feedback.
Links
- Seven Keys to Effective Feedback
- Planning for Growth: Fleshing Out the Feedback
- Why I Give (Almost) All of My Assessments Back to My Students, by Sharona Krinsky
- What Learning Looks Like (Clean) Youtube video
- What REAL "Learning" Looks Like (Explicit) Youtube video
- Teaching More by Grading Less, or Differently, by Schinske and Tanner
- Effects of no feedback, task-related comments, and grades on intrinsic motivation and performance, by Butler and Nissan
- Gradescope - www.gradescope.com
- TextExpander - www.textexpander.com
- Grades Versus Comments: What Does the Research Really Tell Us? (Opinion)
- 5 Research-Based Tips for Providing Students with Meaningful Feedback
Resources
The Grading Conference - an annual, online conference exploring Alternative Grading in Higher Education and K-12.
Some great resources to educate yourself about Alternative Grading:
Recommended Books on Alternative Grading (Please note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!):
- Grading for Growth, by Robert Talbert and David Clark
- Specifications Grading, by Linda Nilsen
- Grading for Equity, by Joe Feldman
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