‘Feedback falls in the top 5 to 10 highest influences on achievement … Clearly, feedback can be powerful.’ (Hattie & Timperley, 2007)
You read it well. Feedback can have a very powerful effect – if not one of the most powerful effects of all – on student learning. There is, of course, a caveat: feedback must be of high quality to be effective. And that is precisely what we will be focusing on in this tip. What is high-quality feedback? When does feedback result in a powerful learning effect? In this ECHO Teaching Tip, we will discuss the conditions for effective feedback.