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Explode These Feedback Myths and Get Your Life Back.
Very nice piece by Arthur Chiaravalli, who is a leader in the ungrading movement. Find out more at TG2: Teachers Going Gradeless.

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A quick video overview from John Hattie about his work overall; feedback is one of the factors that he has identified as highly important. The feedback portion of the video starts at 3:03.

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John Hattie on Visible Learning and Feedback in the Classroom

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7 Strategies for Improving Student Feedback is a post by John Spencer, who does wonderful work on supporting student creativity. Find out more at John Spencer's website.

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This is the new book (2018) by John Hattie and Shirley Clarke: Visible Learning: Feedback.

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Seven Keys to Effective Feedback is a hugely influential piece that Wiggins published with ACSD; it still gets thousands of views a month, ten years later.

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Marshall Goldsmith is a behavioral coach and trainer, and his work has a lot of relevance for educations: Try Feedforward instead of Feedback. And here's a YouTube video.

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Feedforward: Coaching For Behavioral Change

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The Visible Learning website has a wealth of resources and information about Hattie's research in general.

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My approach to ungrading: all-feedback-no-grades. You can find my chapter for the Ungrading book edited by Susan Blum here to read online:
Ungrading.LauraGibbs.net

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being a mirror: writers need to know what their readers are experiencing; feed it back to them!

details: focus in on specific words, phrases, sentences (which means you must read closely yourself)

single out what works: writers need to know what is working; what will their readers remember most?

ask questions: questions prompt more writing from the writer

share resources: help writers with their research (content resources, and also resources for the writing process, technology resources, etc.)

relate to your own work: providing feedback can be part of building an ongoing relationship

proofreading: proofreading your own work is hard; you can help others by proofing for them
[image from the Feedback Cats]

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The answer is FEEDBACK. (Now what's the question?)

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The answer is FEEDBACK. (Now what's the question?)

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This is a podcast convo with Chris Friend for "Teacher of the Ear" at Hybrid Pedagogy.
Teacher of the Ear: Feedback.

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Schools often focus on assessing students, allowing institutions to endlessly rank and sort students based on whatever criteria are being evaluated. But assessments don't by themselves help students improve. Indeed, assessments are usually seen as the end, rather than the beginning, of any learning process. Tests allegedly show whether learning has worked, but they rarely indicate what learning is next. How might classes change if we worked to provide helpful, encouraging feedback instead of grading? What are the potential problems or challenges of that approach?

Laura Gibbs believes feedback - specifically, giving advice and support - makes learning and growth the center of any class. Hear her thoughts on providing meaningful feedback, separating feedback from assessment, working alongside students, and ungrading.

A complete episode transcript is available. Our theme music is by Blue Dot Sessions. This episode's cover art is by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash. The show is hosted on Anchor.fm, and you can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. The full catalog of episodes, including show notes and complete transcripts, lives at hybridpedagogy.org/podcast.

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Laura Gibbs says feedback-giving advice and support-emphasizes learning. Hear about separating feedback from assessment, ungrading, and more.

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This is a Twitter Spaces talk I had with David Buck as part of his Ungrading Twitter Spaces; our conversation about feedback is episode 4 in the series:
Let's Talk Ungrading: Feedback.

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What It Is and What It Isn't has some great thoughts about the differences between feedback, praise and advice.

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Some people advocate for the use of rubrics in providing feedback on student work, but I am not a fan of rubrics; for more about the pitfalls of rubrics, see this post by Jennifer Hurley: Why I Threw Away My Rubrics.

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Engagement and Personalization is about the importance of feedback for motivation.

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This is a very useful interview with John Hattie focusing on feedback.

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Feedback in Schools: you can read this chapter online; it is John Hattie's contribution to this edited volume from 2012: Feedback: The Communication of Praise, Criticism, and Advice.

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Some of the best research on feedback can be found in the Harvard Business Review; it's not just an issue for educators. For example, this interview with Paul Green about negative feedback has a lot of relevance for educators: Negative Feedback Rarely Leads to Improvement.

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Meaningful Writing Happens (written on people's arms)

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Although it's not directly about feedback, I cannot say enough good things about this research study: The Meaningful Writing Project. Michele Eodice led OU's participation in this multi-campus study, and if you want to hear WHAT STUDENTS SAY about meaningful writing in college, then read this book. Plus there's a follow-up book coming with ideas about how implement these findings; I'll update this post as more information becomes available (the book will be published by WVU, who also published Susan Blum's ungrading book).

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Cat looks in mirror: Feedback is helpful; don't fear it.

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I worked hard over the years to creative a positive culture of feedback, both for how I worked together with the students to support them in their work, and also for how the students worked together and supported each other. I collected some resources here: Feedback Resources. Those resources are focused on feedback for creative writing projects, but the same basic idea applies to any kind of learning: finding ways for students to share what they've done/learned, and to get help and inspiration for their next steps going forward. The image above is from the Feedback Cats. :-)

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cat looking in mirror: feedback reveals your potential.

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Here are just a few feedback tips and resources that I've shared at my blog:
Feedback Bootcamp. This is an overview of the five weeks' worth of work students do at the start of the semester to get ready for giving feedback on each other's projects for the rest of the semester.
Student to Student Advice. I asked students to suggest advice they would give to future students, and I turned that into a student-to-student widget in the class announcements.
Suggestion Box in Canvas. You can include a Suggestion Box in your Canvas menu so that students can leave you feedback about the class. We all need feedback! (It's just a simple Google Form that appears as a Canvas menu item.)

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A short piece looking back on Wiggin's "Effective Feedback" piece 10 years later.

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A piece from the WaPo education reporter Valerie Strauss following Grant Wiggins' death in 2015: The last blog posts by the late educator Grant Wiggins.

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I'm always glad to brainstorm about ungrading, feedback, course design, meaningful writing, etc. etc.! The best way to get in touch is by email:
laurakgibbs@gmail.com.

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And don't forget: you have a fabulous Center for Teaching and Learning here at UT. Take advantage of it as part of your professional development in grad school! Here's their website: CTL.Texas.edu.