Provide Effective Feedback

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