The Advantages

of Feedback

From the Classroom teachers Point of View

Different ways of marking

1. RAG

2. Numbered Criteria

3. Presentation Stickers

4. SPaG Stickers

Numbered criteria example

Staff benefits of working this way

• By deciding on criteria/statements/questions before marking, you

only have to use a colour/number.

• It can take as little as 15 mins to mark a set of books.

• Prevents writing the same WWW and EBI in lots of books

Benefits to learners

1. Misconceptions and gaps in knowledge easily identified

2. DIRT can be used to fill gaps in understanding

3. Quality and Quantity of learner work improves over time (improve

knowledge, skills, accelerate progress and prepare for exams

4. Attitudes to work improve

The Advantages

of Feedback

From the Perspective of a CTL

Advantages can be split into 3 areas

1. Quality of Teaching and Learning

1. Student Outcomes

1. Staff Wellbeing

Quality of Teaching & Learning

1. Staff have greater understanding of where students ‘are’ so pitch

lesson more accurately

2. There is a more consistently applied approach to feedback

3. Students know we have a higher expectation and respond

accordingly

4. More time is available for planning great lessons

5. Staff have a clearer understanding of the way exams are structured

and are more engaged with Markschemes

Student Outcomes

1. Staff have more accurately predicted students attainment levels

2. In 2013 students attained 83% of the national average marks on

long answer questions. This rose to 99% this year.

Staff Wellbeing

1. Reduction of workload - takes less than 30 minutes to mark a set of

books

2. Improved attitude towards marking - Staff see tangible benefits &

are more invested in it

3. Don’t get in a “marking hole” - feedback links lesson, no need to go

back and retrospectively mark old classwork