How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students by Susan M Brookhart

How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students by Susan M Brookhart

Properly crafted and individually tailored feedback on student work boosts student achievement across subjects and grades. In this updated and expanded second edition of her best-selling book, Susan M. Brookhart offers enhanced guidance and three lenses for considering the effectiveness of feedback: (1) does it conform to the research, (2) does it offer an episode of learning for the student and teacher, and (3) does the student use the feedback to extend learning?

In this comprehensive guide for teachers at all levels, you will find information on every aspect of feedback, including

• Strategies to uplift and encourage students to persevere in their work.
• How to formulate and deliver feedback that both assesses learning and extends instruction.
• When and how to use oral, written, and visual as well as individual, group, or whole-class feedback.
• A concise and updated overview of the research findings on feedback and how they apply to today's classrooms.

In addition, the book is replete with examples of good and bad feedback as well as rubrics that you can use to construct feedback tailored to different learners, including successful students, struggling students, and English language learners.

The vast majority of students will respond positively to feedback that shows you care about them and their learning. Whether you teach young students or teens, this book is an invaluable resource for guaranteeing that the feedback you give students is engaging, informative, and, above all, effective.

Susan M.Brookhart, PhD, is a Helena, Montana-based independent educational consultant. She has experience teaching both elementary and middle school students. She was professor and chair of Duquesne University's Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership, where she is currently an adjunct professor. She is the editor of Educational Measuring: Problems and Practice, a magazine published by the National Council on Measurement in Education, and the education columnist for National Forum, the Phi Kappa Phi journal. She is the author or coauthor of a number of books, including How to Offer Effective Feedback to Your Students and How to Build and Use Rubrics for Formative Assessment and Grading, both published by ASCD.

She and Connie M. are the coauthors of the book. Moss is the author of Advancing Formative Assessment in Every Classroom: A Handbook for Instructional Leaders, Formative Classroom Walkthroughs: Assessment in Every Classroom, and Learning Targets: Helping Students Reach for Comprehension in Today's Lesson, all of which are published by ASCD. The Center for Research on Educational Effectiveness and Teaching Effectiveness (CREATE) awarded her the 2014 Jason Millman Scholar, and she earned the 2015 Samuel J. ETS/TOEFL's Messick Lecture Prize.