Feed Forward An Approach to Marking from PIXL

Feed Forward An Approach to Marking from PIXL contributor Rachel Johnson

How can we. . ? Reduce teacher workload? Maximise student engagement with marking? Get students to understand their own work? Have meaningful dialogue with students about their progress? • See patterns over time to set targets? • •

How it works in the classroom • Teacher marks the work in 1 minute using symbols • Students comment on reasons for symbols • Teachers mark the students’ reflective comments • Students can identify their own areas of weakness • Teachers can identify patterns

Feedback from teachers on ‘Feed Forward’ “It is much quicker for the teacher to point out errors and reduces the amount of writing required from staff” “Student have picked it up quickly and the sentence starters really help with self and peerassessment. Their comments are more meaningful” “The star tool is useful for showing students they’re doing well as sometimes I think marking is too much about errors”

Implementation Why? (what change) Reduce time it takes to mark. Meaningful student reflection and comment on own work Vision? Students being able to analyse their own work and feed forward into future work Steps? • • • Explain symbols to students Model examples of feedback Link to clear success criteria Teacher marks feedback Patterns/targets established