Course paper Theme: giving automated and consecutive feedback to students

The topicality of the research:

Feedback can lead to learning only if the students have opportunities to use it. One of the best ways you can help students learn to use feedback is to make sure you build in opportunities for students to use it fairly soon after they receive it. The “long view” of feedback, using the metaphor of a telescope lens, helps us remember to focus on the consequences of feedback.

Characteristics of effective feedback

• Effective feedback is about learning tasks.
• Effective feedback is specific and related to learning goals.
• Effective feedback is appropriately challenging.
• Effective feedback entails the active involvement of the learner.
• Effective feedback is a combination of the positive and the negative.

Mode of feedback

Written feedback

• reviewing and writing comments on students’ written work

Oral feedback

• observing and commenting as students by helping oral speech

The common types of feedback: corrective and peer feedback

Corrective feedback
Peer feedback

Corrective feedback

The most common type of feedback given by most teachers in most classrooms is corrective feedback, which focuses on learners’ errors.

G grammar	T tense	Ø not necessary
MW missing word	WC word choice	/ start a new sentence
P punctuation	WO word order	ʎ something is missing
Sp spelling	WW wrong word	??? very unclear