WatSEE-aligned Actions
- Provide clear and focused feedback in an accessible format on how students can improve their work including what was good, what could be improved, and how to improve
- Be specific with an example to illustrate
- Be realistic by restricting feedback to what the student can control
- Be timely to maximize learning impact and allow student agency regarding course enrolment
- Offer continued support
- Create regular opportunities for reflection by students
- Invite students to request the kinds of feedback they would like when they hand in work
- Provide students with opportunities to evaluate and provide feedback on each other’s work; these opportunities build transferable skills when students turn to producing and regulating their own work
- Develop feedback literacy:
- Provide feedback recognition training
- Guide sense-making of feedback
- Support action on feedback
- Emphasize reflection as a form of feedback
Resources
Centre for Teaching Excellence
Receiving and Giving Effective Feedback
Enabling Uptake of Instructor Feedback Through Feedback Literacy
Equity Accelerator
Effective Growth Mindset Culture Messages
Creating a Wise Feedback Framing Statement
eCampus Ontario
Online Instructional Skills Workshop
Online Facilitator Development Workshop
Associate Vic-President, Academic
Framework for Teaching Effectiveness