Feedback for Formative and Summative Assessment Objectives To

Feedback for Formative and Summative Assessment

Objectives • To understand the importance of formative assessment feedback • To understand the importance of summative assessment feedback • To write effective summative assessment feedback

Formative and Summative Assessment • Students need formative assessment but are motivated by summative assessment • Students need practice (formative assessment) • Students need feedback on formative assessment (assessment for learning) to perform in summative assessment

Why Student Feedback Matters? • When does formative feedback occur • Feedback can occur at any point in the learning cycle: • while students are working on a task • while students are presenting a task • at the end of the task

Methods of Feedback for Formative Assessment • • Tutor led Questioning Peer marking Peer evaluation Homework and research tasks Classroom Activities Practice assessments

Hints and Tips on Giving Feedback on Summative Assessment Do: • Create a feedback checklist for each evidence requirement • Be positive: – tell the student what they have done well • Provide written statements giving feedback • Provide deadline for re-do • Provide feedback for all students

Hints and Tips on Giving Feedback on Summative Assessment Don’t: • When writing feedback statements, tell the student what to do • Some IT, accounting and financial services units require calculations – do not redo the calculation for the students • Write “insufficient” – what is insufficient, how is it insufficient.

Structuring and Recording Summative Assessment • Use short sentences • Tell the student what they have done well • Don’t give the student the answer when you are providing feedback on what has NOT been done

Example • Assessment Instrument requires the student to create a marketing plan. The student has not included this. It is a part of the assessment that the student should know to include a marketing plan. • How do we write the feedback?

• • Don’t: Your marketing plan is missing Do: It is not obvious from your response how the product will be launched

Example • Calculation example • How do you write the feedback to the student without providing the answer?

Feedback • You need to think who the buyer and who the seller of the currency is in this transaction. (there is only one alternative and that they will get it right next time but that feedback takes them back to the root of their error) • Correct answer £ 206, 666. 67

Graded Unit Feedback • Feedback at the end of each stage • Do not give mark • Only indicate if student has met minimum requirements for the stage • Indicate what has been done well • Indicate what may cause problems in the future

Workshop Objectives • By the end of the workshop, you should: – Understand the importance of feedback – Be able to write structured and effective feedback to students for all types of assessment