Provide Targeted Feedback* [1] â Individual
Strategy: Prioritized information about how studentsâ performance does or does not meet the criteria so they can understand how to improve their future performance
Process:Â Instructor with each assignment:
- Prioritizes the feedback: consider âwhat information will be most useful to students at a particular point in timeâ (p. 149). Focus on a single dimension of performance at a time
- Balances strengths and weaknesses: consider what aspects of performance must be âmaintained and built uponâ (p. 149), and âwhat aspects should be adjusted (and ideally, how)â (p. 149)
- Addresses subsequent performance when students have the capacity to incorporate that feedback into further practice (p. 141)
- Provides more repetition of assignments within the same genre, incorporates feedback into subsequent assignments (p. 141)
Source:Â http://fc.short.cm/IndividualTargetedFeedback
Students:
- Submit rough draft and receive targeted comments
- Address instructorâs comments in the revision, acknowledging the explicit articulation of a pre-set goal for the final draft (p. 141-142)
Instructor can demonstrate:
- How to properly approach a problem â how an âexpertâ thinks about the problem
- How to find meaningful patterns â are they useful in the current context?
- How to create useful patterns
Student can work on improving the detection of oneâs own errors:
- Learning to look for patterns
- Deliberating on the purpose of the pattern, whether it adds or is detrimental to the work
- Writing a commentary to the assignment on what was done using the feedback, and what was learned (p. 152)
* Based on strategies from Ambrose et al., 2010
