6054.6, CODE, Raczynski, Techniques for Providing Feedback on Student Writing, Grade 6

These CODE courses focus on techniques for providing feedback on students’ writing. Research has shown that these techniques are effective (Hattie & Timperley, 2007; Yuan, Engelhard, Raczynski, & Wang, 2022). 

“Effective” means the student understands the feedback more clearly and so is more likely to take action, making changes that clearly improve the written response.  

These techniques include:

• Not giving students too much feedback but instead prioritizing feedback in just a few areas that would lead to the greatest improvement between drafts.

• Being as specific as possible.

• Putting the feedback in the form of a question (whenever possible).

• Tailoring the feedback to the student’s current level of progress.

In each course, we model applying these techniques, and then there is an application exercise where you can practice applying the same techniques to a small sample of student responses.

There is a unique course for each grade level and genre (opinion/argumentative, informational, and narrative). Therefore, there are three unique courses per grade level. Note, at the high school level, there are three courses per grade band (9-10 and 11-12).