It seems to be common (and accepted) knowledge that effective feedback is timely and relevant. In other words, receiving a simple grade on a test two weeks after it was given is unlikely to improve learning. But learning science has also shown that feedback, even when timely and relevant, can still be ineffective, or even harmful. In this installment of IgnitED Research, we take a closer look at feedback.

Explore More

Language Warm-Up

A collection of strategies that are used to warm up students’ ears and mouths to better hear and produce the sounds of English.

Model, Model, Model

The teacher uses a variety of teaching styles during a “think aloud” to explicitly model for students what they will be doing during their...

Say Something Cards

Say Something cards provide students who are learning English with scaffolded sentence stems to help guide conversations.