Monday, July 26, 2010

Two-stage Assignments - Two-stage Projects (Individual/Group)

The following examples show how two-stage individual/group projects enable the teacher to review students' learning progress and provide feedback to performance before submitting the final product.

Two-stage Assignments - Two-stage Written Essay (Individual)

The following examples describe two-stage written assignments, which usually incorporate a draft submission before the submission of the final essay.

Two-stage Assignments - Two-stage Portfolios (Individual)

The following example describes a portfolio assessment that has to be submitted twice.

Multi-stage Assignments

The following examples describe the feedback practice by using multi-stage assignments.

Dialogic Feedback - In-class Discussion/Debate

The following examples describe how to promote dialogic feedback through in-class discussion and debates, so students can get verbal feedback from peers and the teacher.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Dialogic Feedback - Peer Feedback

The following examples describe how presentations during group projects promote verbal peer feedback.

Dialogic Feedback - Questioning Approach

The following examples describe a feedback practice on how a teacher responds to students' questions and how this approach could  help students to learn by themselves.

Dialogic Feedback - Collective Feedback

The following examples describe feedback practices in giving collective feedback verbally on written assignment and past exam papers regarding students’ commonly made mistakes.

Dialogic Feedback - Face-to-Face Discussion during Non-class Time

The following examples describe how teachers give verbal feedback to the students during non-class time.

Dialogic Feedback - Peer Tutoring

The following example describes how peer tutoring could assist in giving dialogic feedback to students.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Technology-supported Feedback - Blogs

The following examples describe how to use the blog as a platform to allow students to give peer feedback and to build an interactive environment.


Technology-supported Feedback - WebCT

The following examples describe the practices of using WebCT to give feedback to students.

Technology-supported Feedback - Storyboards

The following example shows how a teacher gives feedback to the students' storyboards. 

Technology-supported Feedback - Others

The following examples describe about other technology-supported feedback practices by using videotape, online discussion forum and email.

Students' Self-evaluation

All of the above examples require student self-evaluation at some level. The following examples provide some additional specific examples of student self-evaluation.