Role Of Feedback In Education

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Role of Feedback Feedback can provide students with information about strengths and weaknesses of responses, the outcomes achieved and students’ performance in relation to standards and to other students. For students, effective feedback on responses to assessment tasks should include: what was expected from the task, meaningful information about the quality of work, clear statements about how to improve, correction of misunderstandings, reinforcement of what has been done well. For teachers, effective feedback enables them to evaluate: teaching and learning programs, teaching strategies, assessment strategies, assessment task design, marking guidelines. According to QQI guidelines, when developing their quality assurance system, providers' …show more content…

The teacher would have alerted the students that there was a problem without the problem without telling him/her exactly what the problem was. Such as feedback could be in the form of hints, pauses, or a rising intonation in the voice in order to redirect the student’s thinking. This kind of feedback is also considered a kind a of scaffolding. Reinforcing students feedback was useful in the in the beginning of students assessment. In the later parts of the students assessment, the effect on this type of feedback on learning was not …show more content…

Teachers are their prime source of support. Students rely on their teachers to give them feedback about the things they are doing well and how they might improve in other areas. The school assessment program provides a major source of information on how successfully students are performing in their courses. The information is valuable for both the student and the teacher. Feedback can provide students with information about strengths and weaknesses of responses, the outcomes achieved and students’ performance in relation to standards and to other students. For students, effective feedback on responses to assessment tasks should include: what was expected from the task? Like meaningful information about the quality of work, clear statements about how to improve, correction of misunderstandings, reinforcement of what has been done well. For teachers, effective feedback enables them to evaluate: teaching and learning programs, teaching strategies, assessment strategies, assessment task design, marking guidelines. (John Gore- CEO,

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