How Can Feedback Improve students’ Performance ? /AN
Use the following headings and word counts as a GUIDELINE for writing up the projects. Feel free to change headings titles and format.
Front page-
Name
Title
Word count
Background:
Why is this area personally relevant to you as a developing teacher and why is it important in your teaching context? Talk about your own teaching or teaching you have observed in your context. Why will this focus be useful for other teachers in your context? What do the experts say about this area? Refer to books or articles you have read on the subject to support what you say where appropriate.
600 words
Teachers I will observe:
Give a brief description of the teachers you are observing- their qualifications and years of experience
50 words
Instrument Design:
Explain the instrument (pro-forma) you have designed; comment on each of the questions, grids, diagrams, spaces, tick boxes you have created. How will they help observers notice the relevant points? informed the content of the instrument- you must refer to reading here.
Include a blank example of the instrument in this section (obligatory and not included in word count)
350 words
Changes to the first instrument:
Start by summarising the strengths (what worked well) and the limitations (what was missing, redundant, not clear etc?) in the table.
Strengths of the instrument Limitations of the instrument
Here write about the changes you made as a result. What exactly did you change and why? Include an example of the second instrument in this section (not included in word count)
400 words
Changes to second instrument
Strengths of the instrument Limitations of the instrument
Explain the second set of changes you made in the same way as before.
Include an example of the third instrument in this section (not included in word count)
400 words
Evaluation of the final instrument:
Evaluate the effectiveness of your 3rd and final version of the instrument. What further improvements could be made to your instrument?
500 words
Evaluation of Results:
Evaluate the results that the instrument yielded. Refer to examples of interesting comments and information from your notes made on the instruments. What did you find out about your area of interest? Refer back to what you wrote in section 1a here.
500 words
Conclusion and implications for the future:
What else would you like to investigate about this area of teaching in the future? What are the implications for using this instrument in your context?
500 words






