We are launching our first online course! Floop is now offering a Feedback Essentials Course. This 5-hour self-paced course includes 5 modules covering the following topics: Feedback overview – Examine the current research about feedback, feedback systems, and going gradeless. Reflect on your current feedback practices. Teacher feedback – Explore how to design an effective, …
If you are an educator, feedback and assessment have been a part of your vocabulary and discussions for as long as you can remember. Sometimes the terms are used interchangeably or confused for one another, yet they are so different. In looking up the definitions of “feedback” and “assessment”, you will find one of the …
Feedback vs. Assessment: what is the difference? Read More »
Using Red Font Influences the Emotional Perception of Critical Performance Feedback Bertrams, Alex Althaus, Lea Boss, Tina Furrer, Patricia Jegher, Ladina C. Soszynska, Paulina Tschumi, Vinzenz (2019) The participants’ subsequent evaluation of the feedback revealed that using red in the feedback caused the feedback to be perceived as relatively less emotionally positive. Using a …
Research Digest: What Does Science Have to Say About Feedback? Read More »
Washington state is becoming the first in the nation to include student voice as a standard in the edTPA teacher certification portfolio assessment. They define student voice as: Ongoing reflective self-assessment expressed in the words of the learner for the purpose of improving teaching and learning. The edTPA breaks the portfolio down into three tasks: planning, …
This series of posts will cover a variety of bite-sized strategies that can be incorporated into a more holistic feedback system. To learn more about the research behind these approaches, we recommend you first read our white paper. Part 1 – Feedback is Emotional Part 2 – Engaging with Criteria Winstone, Nash, Parker, & …
Part 3 – Tools for an Equitable Feedback System: Actively Seeking Feedback Read More »
Over winter break, Floop co-founder Melanie and I had the privilege of talking with prominent feedback researcher Dr. Naomi Winstone. Her research has discovered that feedback interventions all seem to target at least one of four metacognitive skills, described by the SAGE process, and hypothesizes that a holistic approach to developing feedback systems should target …
