Ask them simple questions, such as, ‘What did you do well?” This reinforces the elements that were successful, and the learner is saying it. Imagine observing a learner doing something. The main ideas can also be seen in action with 5 and 10 year-old children in the classroom.įeedback, in reality, is based on a Socratic approach.

Watch this short video in which Shirley Clarke explains the concept of feedback, success criteria and formative assessment.

Chapter 4: The power of within – lesson verbal feedback.

Chapter 3: Teaching and learning frameworks.

Visible Learning Feedback – Table of Contents

You can order the book on Amazon or find it in a library. Visible Learning: Feedback by John Hattie and Shirley Clarke. If you are interested in getting feedback right, this book is an excellent starting point. They discuss the importance of surface, deep and transfer learning they show how to make use of student-to-teacher feedback and peer-to-peer feedback and they point out the power of within-lesson feedback and manageable post-lesson feedback. In “ Visible Learning: Feedback” Hattie and Clarke approach the theory and practice of feedback and aim to resolve the paradox of the power of feedback vs. “I used to think giving more feedback and better feedback was the answer, and it’s the exact opposite: How do teachers and students receive feedback? How do they interpret it?” “The key question is, does feedback help someone understand what they don’t know, what they do know, and where they go? That’s when and why feedback is so powerful, but a lot of feedback doesn’t-and doesn’t have any effect.”, Hattie said in a recent interview with Edweek. It seems the art of teaching is the ability to listen more and talk less.

In the new book “Visible Learning Feedback” John Hattie and Shirley Clarke dive deeper into this core message of the Visible Learning research and switch the conversation from the giver to the receiver of the feedback message. Feedback is one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement – if you get it right.

Visible learning feedback