Feedback is a critical part of the learning process. We presented on providing feedback for face-to-face and online classes.

1. Making Feedback Meaningful and Motivating in Online or Traditional Classrooms Northwest Iowa Community College Sue Grapevine Rebecca Hoey Chris Anderson

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3. Making Feedback Meaningful and Motivating in Online or Traditional Classrooms Northwest Iowa Community College Sue Grapevine Rebecca Hoey Chris Anderson

4. Definition of Feedback Feedback, like assessment, is evaluative, BUT feedback is given more like coaching—it indicates to students what they must do to improve for the future. Assessment comes with a grade, feedback does not. Assessment is announced like a grade, feedback is a dialogue between the student and teacher. -Fink, 2003

5. Feedback from audience The best type of pet is A. a dog B. a cat C. a fish D. a bird E. none of the above

6. What city are the current winter Olympic games being held? A. Toronto B. Montreal C. Vancouver D. Calgary

7. True or false: Elephants are afraid of mice. A. True B. False

8. Timeliness To be most effective, feedback should be returned to students as soon as possible after the activity is completed. A. True B. False

9. Research Learners require regular, timely and user-friendly feedback in order to understand goals, to produce quality work, and to meet high standards. ~Wiggins, G. & McTighe, J. (2007)

10. What is timely?

11. Focus and Structure Feedback should focus on student errors. A. True B. False

12. How to write good feedback Focus on goals Make it instructional Make it timely Be positive Use the Oreo Approach

13. No Feedback Compare and contrast an elephant and a mouse noting at least one similarity and one difference between the two animals. (10 points)

14. Vague Feedback Compare and contrast an elephant and a mouse noting at least one similarity and one difference between the two animals. (10 points)

15. Babbling Compare and contrast an elephant and a mouse noting at least one similarity and one difference between the two animals. (10 points)

17. Good Compare and contrast an elephant and a mouse noting at least one similarity and one difference between the two animals. (10 points)

18. You try it! Jane has a cell phone plan that costs her $30.00 a month for 1000 minutes of air time plus 25 cents for each text message she sends during the month. Jane had 689 minutes of air time during January and she sent 100 text messages that month. What is Jane's cell phone bill for January? Explain how you calculated the bill.

19. Encouragement and Praise Feedback is not the place to offer help or encouragement. A. True B. False

20. Encouragement and Praise Offering lots of general praise helps students to succeed. A. True B. False

21. Feedback on opening activity

22. Research Educative feedback IS provided For the sake of learning To encourage students Educative Feedback IS NOT provided For the sake of rating a student's performance.

23. Praise and Encouragement Avoid praise that focuses on student ability Avoid false praise Encourage students by Recognizing what they are doing correct Specifically stating what needs to change to achieve success Asserting that students can be successful

24. Relationships Feedback does not encourage relationships between students and instructors because students feel intimidated. A. True B. False

25. Research Acquiring knowledge requires Human interaction Communication oriented education model The learning environment should include Meaningful and reflective interactions Many opportunities for feedback

26. Time Management Providing detailed feedback takes a lot of time. A. True B. False

27. Research Using good feedback can help students Develop self-regulated learning Focus on goals Develop their own beliefs in their abilities to learn Students who are confident in their abilities and who are focused on goals become less dependent on the teacher!

28. Time Management Suggestions Provide clear instructions up front “Compare and contrast an elephant and a mouse.” Versus “Compare and contrast an elephant and a mouse noting at least one similarity and at least one difference. Use correct spelling and grammar.”

29. Time Management Suggestions Provide feedback for common errors to the entire class as opposed to individual students “As I graded the homework, I saw that many students were forgetting to….”

30. Time Management Suggestions Use a grading code Underlined text is correct. ( ) √ means the material in the parentheses is incorrect. ( ) ? means I don’t understand the material in the parentheses.

31. Time Management Suggestions Use rubrics Example

32. Time Management Suggestions Use “premade” feedback and modify to fit the student Example

33. Student Perceptions Feedback isn’t important because students won’t pay attention to it anyway. A. True B. False

34. Research Core behaviors to promote positive student-teacher interaction Active learning experiences Meaningful feedback Behaviors are critical for both distance and face-to-face teaching

35. When is feedback most effective? Student perceptions Student is confident of response, response is correct = less effective Student is not confident of response, response is not correct = less effective Student is confident of response, response is not correct = student most receptive to feedback

36. When is feedback most effective? Quality of performance Most effective when it corrects misunderstandings Least effective when student totally misunderstands concepts

37. Vehicles for Feedback Written feedback is the most effective. A. True B. False

38. Research Effective feedback can be delivered via Written communications Audio recordings Video recordings

39. Demonstration

40. Wrap-Up Questions? Wiki SurveyMonkey Collaboration Evaluation