Assessment & Feedback Practices: a hands-on workshop for teachers

The challenge

Teachers give a great deal of feedback, but much of it is too vague for students to act on, like "make your analysis clearer." Feedback is also often added at the end of an assessment instead of being planned into it. This workshop set out to change both habits.

My design process

1. Clear, measurable objectivesI defined five outcomes, from writing specific, actionable feedback to designing assessments with feedback points built in.
2. Starting from what teachers knowA pre-assessment surfaced participants' current practices so I could adjust the session in real time.
3. Learning by contrastTeachers compared actionable and vague feedback side by side, then analyzed and rewrote real feedback statements.
4. Applying it to their own workTeachers redesigned an assessment from a unit they were teaching, using a planning worksheet to decide where and how students would receive feedback.
5. Support after the sessionTeachers left with a guide to formative and summative assessment tools, such as Edpuzzle, Pear Deck, and Book Creator, and readings for going further.

Samples

Outcome

Every participant left with a redesigned assessment from a unit they were currently teaching, with specific feedback points already planned in, and a toolkit of digital assessment tools ready to use in their classrooms.