Delivering Feedback to Students

I found this site on the University of Ohio’s University System web site on the subject of delivering feedback to students. The author asserts the following:

After 37 years of teaching, I find that the best results come not from a power relationship but a collaboration between teacher and learner—both focused on the student's achievement. This collaboration is based upon the creative tension among learning goals and expectations, teaching/learning process, learner performance, mutual assessment and careful reflection. The tool for blending these elements into "learning," is feedback.

James Gordon Williams also has this article worth reading on providing feedback on written assignments in ESL classrooms:

This paper looks at ways of providing effective feedback on English language learners' written assignments. It examines some of the more common methods of feedback and why they are at times ineffective. It also looks at effectual ways of providing feedback as well as student preferences for feedback. Suggestions and examples for providing effective feedback are provided.

I also recommend going to this link courtesy of the University of Michigan. It presents excellent information on Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATS) and Informal Student Feedback:

CATs and other informal student feedback techniques are formative assessment methods that help an instructor monitor learning throughout the semester. They answer questions such as "Was my teaching effective?" or "What is still confusing students?" or “How can I improve the teaching and learning in this course?” Informal feedback techniques are especially useful for providing information for improvement when appropriate learning is not occurring.