Module 2: Written feedback - PGCE

4.2 Developing written feedback 35 minutes
Introduce this section by displaying slide 4.2.4 to show some research findings
into feedback and pupils’ response to it.
Slide 4.2.4
Explain the following.
• Changing the way teachers provide written feedback to pupils, including
the marking of their work, to make feedback more focused and selective
requires teachers, pupils and parents to understand the rationale and
the process.
• Clear guidance needs to be agreed as to the regularity of detailed
written feedback and departments need to identify the key pieces of work
to focus upon.
• The use of marks, grades and levels and how these are recorded and
shared with parents need to be agreed at whole-school level.
Task A (20 minutes)
Tell participants the following.
• The task involves looking at a range of teacher comments and suggesting
whether they consider the feedback to the pupils to be helpful.
• The participants are provided with handout 4.2.1 which gives:
– a number of teacher comments;
– some criteria to help participants judge the helpfulness of the comments
to the pupils.
Handout 4.2.1
Handout 4.2.1
Handout 4.2.1 cont.
Teacher comment Does the feedback provide information to the pupil about:
whether they are their limitations and a way to improve a way to think through
on the right track? encourage them to their learning? the answer for
correct work? themselves?
You started off well. Unfortunately you have made the
same error in the last three questions. Can you see
what this is? You may find it helpful to go back to the
grid method.
Your poem about copper sulphate was interesting. We
need to discuss how you think copper crystals are
made.
Attainment 3 Effort 2
You have made good progress in your handwriting.
Your spelling still needs work.
I think we need to talk about this work in more detail.
Yet again you have not completed the work.
Well done Simon. This is a very impressive article
about the pros and cons of nuclear power. It was well
presented as a newspaper article and I liked your
quotes from different members of the public.
The concerns you started to raise about nuclear waste
perhaps need some further discussion. We can talk
about this next lesson.
Teacher comment Does the feedback provide information to the pupil about:
whether they are their limitations and a way to improve a way to think through
on the right track? encourage them to their learning? the answer for
correct work? themselves?
Well done – 1 merit
A good ‘best fit graph’. The conclusion clearly explains
the relationship between the force and the extension
of the spring.
There are a lot of inaccuracies in this work. Please
check it through again.
This work shows you have clear understanding of
finding the areas and perimeters. What strategies did
you use to calculate the answers? What were
the important steps for you?
You’ve plotted some interesting shapes. Well done!
You have included more adjectives, which help bring
the character alive on the page, but your sentence
structure is not as varied as John’s. Experiment more
by using complex sentences.
Cracking piece of work. I like the diagrams and the
interesting way you presented the impact of man on
the environment. Keep it up!
• The criteria have been adapted for the task from the research findings
highlighted at the start of the module.
4 Whole-school development in assessment for learning | Presenter’s Notes © Crown copyright 2004