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Making Learning Visible

Building A Feedback Culture

John Hattie & Cameron Brooks

with Michelle Labelle-Fisch (GrokSpot and NextLesson)�December 1, 2020

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Meet John Hattie

John Hattie

Laureate Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education

Chair, Board of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership

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Meet Cameron

Brooks

Cameron Brooks

Research Fellow, School of Education, University of Queensland

Author of numerous articles on feedback

A Matrix of Feedback for Learning

What Is My Next Step? School Students' Perceptions of Feedback

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Connect Learning

to the Real World

10,000+

K-12 Resources

Skill Builders

Activities

Practice Sheets

Rank & Reason

Application

Projects

Performance Tasks

3,000+�Topics Students Love

1,000+

Rich Discussion Prompts

What can you now teach?

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The NextLesson

GrokSpot Team

Michelle Labelle-Fisch

Head of District Success

Dion Lim

CEO

Erin Tran

Head of Product

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Learning Intentions

  • Begin the work of building a feedback culture with your students�
  • Explore the Student-centered Model of Feedback�
  • Try a tool to practice peer-to-peer feedback

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Visible Learning Flips�the Learning Lens

  • Teachers see learning through student responses.�
  • Students see learning through the eyes of a teacher.

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Distribution of

Effects

1,600+ meta-analysis

100,000+ studies

273,000+ effects

300 influences

¼ billion+ students

Corwin: Visible Learning Plus

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The Power

of Feedback

Feedback is effective when it:�

  • Clarifies success
  • Informs the learner about progress based on success criteria
  • Offers guidance about next steps to improve
  • Is heard, understood, and actionable.

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“Simple” Feedback Needs

Students want to know

Where have I done well?

-Indicates where

done well

-Understanding

-Positive emotions: encouraged, confident

Where can I improve?

-Error flagging: what? Where?

-Corrections and corrective

How do I improve?

-Elaborate ideas

-How to improve

-Suggestions, examples, tips

-Explain errors

What do I do next time?

-Next time…

-Critical thinking

-Ability to self- regulate

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The Power

of Feedback

Effective feedback causes:

  • Thinking → interpretation → improvement

  • Responsibility for giving, receiving, and acting on feedback to be shared between students, peers, teachers

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The best designed feedback is ineffective if...

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The best defined feedback is ineffective if students don’t act on it.

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Student-centered �Model of Feedback

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Effective feedback

activates the learner

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Learners actively construct and reconstruct understanding.

New information is related to existing prior knowledge.

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Effective feedback �opportunities are mapped �from the learning intent

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SOLO Taxonomy (Biggs and Tang 2007, p. 79)

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Effective feedback requires

a culture of learning

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Student-centered �Model of Feedback

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Effective feedback informs �students about progress

  • Formative evaluation is the key driver of feedback opportunities.
  • Formative evaluation can be formal or informal.

  • Formative evaluation is a process not a product.

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Effective feedback �clarifies success

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“Which is more effective?”

Give the students an example and non-example

“Why? Highlight the successful parts.”

“How does your own work compare?”

“What is your next step to improve?”

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Models

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Mr. Bell walked down a quiet street, holding onto his bowler hat so that the strong wind wouldn’t blow it off his head. The wind blew harder and harder.

Mr. Bell hurried down the street, clutching his bowler hat so the whipping winds couldn't steal it. Eyes darting everywhere, he pushed on into the path of the gale.

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Models

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Mr. Bell walked down a quiet street, holding onto his bowler hat so that the strong wind wouldn’t blow it off his head. The wind blew harder and harder.

Mr. Bell hurried down the street, clutching his bowler hat so the whipping winds couldn't steal it. Eyes darting everywhere, he pushed on into the path of the gale.

  • Characterisation (show don’t tell)
  • Imagery (picture in your mind)
  • Foreshadow (stretch it out)

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Effective feedback

promotes improvement

For feedback to be effective and sustainable we need to leverage the other human resources in the room:

  • Peers
  • Self
  • Teachback

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Q & A

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How can we best use our resources to build a feedback culture?

Building a Feedback �Culture

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Building a Feedback �Culture: Introduction

  • How does it fit with our learning plan for our school?
  • How are we teaching students to have a nose for quality?

Example: We believe giving and receiving feedback helps us all improve our learning and enjoy success.

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Building a Feedback Culture:

Clarifying Success

Student

  • discuss, deconstruct, and critique work samples�
  • connect and map the success criteria to exemplars and samples

Teacher

  • state clear learning intentions�
  • share specific success criteria

  • provide exemplars - multiple types for discussion

  • co-construct ideas of success with students from exemplars

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Building a Feedback Culture:

Progress Checks

Student

  • progress checks will provide specific information about how to improve�
  • expect to both give and receive feedback as a progress check with our work

Teacher

  • plan progress checks to help students stay on track �
  • progress checks start when a topic begins and include many points along the way

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Building a Feedback Culture:

Promoting Improvement

Student

  • work improves when we critique strong and weak work samples�
  • revises work using the feedback received�
  • quality of the work helps our teacher determine next steps

Teacher�

  • feedback will always include what to improve and guidance on how�
  • we have time to revise our work after we receive feedback

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Building a Feedback Culture:

Culture of Learning

Student

  • errors, mistakes, missed understanding are opportunities to improve
  • receiving feedback requires a commitment to clarify, understand, and act to improve work
  • giving feedback requires listening, interpreting effort, info on what/how to improve

Teacher

  • giving and receiving feedback needs to be learned and practiced
  • feedback aims to help the learner improve; not just fix a single task
  • giving feedback requires listening, interpreting effort, info on what/how to improve

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Building a Feedback Culture:

Review Practice

Student

  • knows feedback helps the teacher know next steps�
  • works to improve feedback given to peers�
  • provides feedback to teacher on learning impact

Teacher

  • understands that active review and critique from students improves their impact on students
  • directs the focus of the feedback to the work not the person
  • collaborates with colleagues to plan feedback points in units

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Student-centered �Model of Feedback

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Building a Feedback Culture:

A Nose for Quality with Peers

Student

  • describes what quality looks like and why with peers�
  • shares what and how to improve with peers�
  • develops ability to self-review against examples�
  • expects time to revise

Teacher

  • guides peer conversations and experiences �
  • plans for a focus on differences between weak and strong examples �
  • ensures time to critique and feedback is built into learning

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Sample Classroom �Feedback Policy�

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Q & A

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Peer-to-Peer

Feedback Tool�

GrokSpot

Let’s put this

into action!

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Peer-to-Peer

In Action

Three students discussing their reading about Buddhism and comparing it to Confucianism.

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Peer-to-Peer

Feedback Tool�

Responses & Replies

Academic Reactions

Like

Love your thinking

Pondering

I agree

I suggest

I have a question

Tell me more

Moved my thinking

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Teacher Feedback Tool�

Responses

Sentiments

Grew my thinking

Challenged my ideas

Learned something new

Made me think

I have questions

Student Word Frequency

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Teacher Feedback Tool�

Confidence Measure

5 - I could teach this

4 - I am confident on my own

3 - I need more practice

2 - I am confident with help

1 - Not at all confident

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What are the biggest barriers to feedback being used by students?

Building a Feedback �Culture

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Knocking Down the �Barriers

  • When - planned formatively at key places - where feedback helps both student and teacher�
  • How - feedback is received (about the work only, not the student- heard, understood, actionable)�
  • After feedback - time to revise, reconsider, redo, clarify & enjoy success

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Q & A

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CEO Offer

We Feedback - 3 Quick Questions!�

40% off Coupon Code

Getting Started with GrokSpot

Webinar Slide Links

Sample Feedback Policy

Certificate of Completion

Webinar Q&A’s

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Contact Us

Michelle Labelle-Fisch

michelle@grokspot.org

OR support@grokspot.org

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