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It’s important to support students’ use of feedback because educators spend a lot of time marking or grading students’ work and providing feedback comments. Now, if we want these comments to have an impact on students’ learning, they need to be used. And that is students need to understand and apply these comments to other pieces of work they will do. If feedback is provided but not used, it has little if any impact.
So it’s therefore important to support students to develop the skills underpinning effective use of feedback and not to assume that they know exactly how to get the most from it. And the role of the students in the feedback process is also really important. They’re not there just to receive comments given by their teachers. They need to be actively engaged in the process of generating and using feedback to support their learning.
Educators spend a lot of time marking or grading students’ work and providing feedback comments. For these comments to impact students’ learning, they need to be applied, meaning that students must understand and incorporate this feedback into other work they complete. If feedback is provided but not used, it has little, if any, impact.
It is important to support students in developing the skills underpinning effective feedback use, rather than assuming they know exactly how to make the most of it. Students’ own role in feedback is essential. They are not merely passive recipients of comments from their educators; they need to be actively engaged in the process and possess the agency to seek and use feedback to inform their learning.
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