feedback Archives

Maximising opportunities to learn in the classroom

Tue 12th November 2024

Dimension 3 of The Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review focuses on ‘Maximising Opportunities to Learn’. Naturally, this dimension is derived from evidence relating to classroom [...]

Why are we betting on giving teachers more effective feedback (even though no one else is really doing this)?

Mon 11th September 2023

Great teachers know about the power of feedback, and research supports this. In the Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review (Coe et al., 2020), we summarised the evidence about feedback in [...]

Actionable feedback

Fri 24th February 2023

The importance of effective feedback is well known and recognised amongst educators. The Education Endowment Foundation reports feedback can have a “very high impact for very low cost based on [...]

Feedback and the dangers of praise

Wed 3rd August 2022

Within the Model for Great Teaching, Element 4.4 Interacting underscores the importance of effective feedback—both feedback to teachers (to inform their decisions) and feedback to students (that [...]

Student perceptions on teaching: Can student surveys provide useful feedback for teacher learning?

Thu 23rd September 2021

When it comes to determining priorities for teacher professional development, the decision-making process is generally driven by: The priorities or guidance of school leadership; or [...]