Four Steps to Create Feedback Students Want to Read
Do you look forward to providing student feedback, or do you dread the thought of having to read through student papers? Does the thought of poorly written papers frustrate you to the point you cannot enjoy providing feedback, or can you see still see potential in your students? Do students engage with and respond to your feedback? As an educator you may spend a significant amount of time developing feedback for your students, especially for their written assignments. The developmental progress of your students is strengthened when you provide meaningful feedback and they respond to it, either through their actions and improved performance or their follow up questions to you. How do you react when students don't respond to your feedback? What if they continue to make the same mistakes and their performance does not improve? Do you assume that students aren't reading the feedback provided or perhaps they aren't interested in it? It can be very frustrating when you have inv