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Feedback

Meaning in education & teaching, with examples

/ˈfiːdbæk/nounCore term

In education & teaching, feedback means: Information given to a learner about their work or performance, explaining what went well and what they can do to improve.

In Turkish: geri bildirim, dönüt

How it is used

Teachers give or provide feedback on work; students receive, get or act on feedback. It can be written, oral, peer or self feedback. It is uncountable: 'some feedback', 'a piece of feedback'. Teachers also receive feedback after a lesson observation.

Example sentences

  1. I try to give feedback on essays within a week while the task is still fresh.

  2. Students rewrote their paragraphs after reading the teacher's feedback.

Common collocations

  • give feedback
  • written feedback
  • constructive feedback
  • act on feedback
  • feedback on
  • formative assessmentAssessment that takes place during learning to check how students are progressing and to adjust teaching, rather than to give a final grade.
  • peer assessmentAn activity in which students give feedback on or score each other's work, usually using clear criteria or a rubric provided by the teacher.
  • assessmentThe process of collecting information about what students know and can do, for example through tests, tasks, questions or observation, and judging their progress.
  • markTo check students' work, show what is right or wrong and give it a score or grade.

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