Feedback is only powerful when students have time to reflect and use the feedback to change their work. To be effective, it needs to cause students to think. Once students see a mark on the page, they see it has being final, they cannot do anything to change it. Generic comments like "Good job" "Great work" do not cause thinking either. What does are comments that tell the students what they need to look at, what to improve and then giving time for students to act on it.
Feedback needs to be: timely, specific, understandable to the student and communicated in such a way that it guides the student to SELF-ADJUST.
Give students the chance to "refine, revise, practice, and retry."
Instead of marking with checkmarks and x's, tell the student how many they got wrong. For example, "This page has 3 incorrect answers. Find them and correct them."
Feedback needs to be: timely, specific, understandable to the student and communicated in such a way that it guides the student to SELF-ADJUST.
Give students the chance to "refine, revise, practice, and retry."
Instead of marking with checkmarks and x's, tell the student how many they got wrong. For example, "This page has 3 incorrect answers. Find them and correct them."
Research shows that students that received feedback with no grades and just comments had the most significant and positive effects.