{"id":19908,"date":"2021-09-06T05:37:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T09:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=19908"},"modified":"2022-02-03T02:57:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T07:57:21","slug":"transparent-feedback-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/06\/transparent-feedback-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Transparent Feedback Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tracigardner.com\/feedback-guide\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tracigardner.com\/feedback-guide\/GuidetoFeedbackonYourWriting.png?resize=400%2C1000&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Guide to Feedback on Your Writing, with transcript at link\" width=\"400\" height=\"1000\" class=\"alignright\"\/><\/a>My assessment this term focuses on feedback, as a part of the  #ungrading approach I have adopted. Since I do not put A\u2019s and B\u2019s on student work, feedback is critical. <\/p>\n<p>Understandably, some students are a bit nervous about this approach. In particular, they worry that they will not be able to tell what the feedback tells them about their work. Their uneasiness is a strong indication of how they have used grades to determine their accomplishment in the past.  Combine their apprehension about #ungrading with the fact that every teacher provides feedback differently, and it\u2019s little wonder they aren&#8217;t quite sure how all this feedback is going to work.<\/p>\n<p>As I began adding feedback to the work they have submitted, I realized that I could tell students more about the logistics of my feedback system and that it was in my benefit to do so for several reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">I do not comment on every piece of writing students do, but they have no way of knowing whether the lack of a comment means I haven&#8217;t seen their text or I saw it and chose to say nothing.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">I use boilerplate  for those frequently-used comments, but students do not know why I might repeat exactly the same feedback. <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">I automate some feedback in Canvas on activities that count like check-ins. If students have not done those activities, Canvas can assign them an Incomplete (or zero). They need to understand how to use that feedback as a reminder to get the activity done.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To explain all these practices to students, I created the simple infographic on the right, with an <a href=\"https:\/\/tracigardner.com\/feedback-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online transcript of the text<\/a>. I aimed at short and clear explanations, without expansive details on pedagogical or practical reasons for the different strategies.<\/p>\n<p> I plan to share it on Tuesday, after our Labor Day holiday. I\u2019m hoping to hear that the details help make the logistics more transparent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My assessment this term focuses on feedback, as a part of the #ungrading approach I have adopted. Since I do not put A\u2019s and B\u2019s on student work, feedback is critical. Understandably, some students are a bit nervous about this approach. In particular, they worry that they will not be able to tell what the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ungrading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-5b6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19908"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19963,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19908\/revisions\/19963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}