Students need feedback after no more than ‘one sleep’!
Three weeks later doesn’t work. By then, students have lost interest in the work concerned, and have moved on to something else. They need feedback while they still 
remember what they were trying to do, while they still remember what they struggled with, and while they are still proud of what they mastered. They need feedback at the moment of submission – and this means they all have to hand in their work at the same time. The ideal place is at a lecture, when they’re all together anyway, and can receive whole-group feedback on likely mistakes, frequently-needed explanations, there and then. This can be achieved – see the extract '24-hour feedback’ from ‘Making Teaching Work’ by Phil Race and Ruth Pickford (Sage, 2007) in the compendium of feedback writings on the downloads page of www.phil-race.com. Image source: Microsoft Clip Art
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Giving immediate feedback in the manner suggested would be very difficult as for nearly every piece of assessment some students have been granted an extension.
I would setle for 3 weeks! I rarely receive feedback within that timeframe at UniSA!
This fast feedback idea is a challenge isn't it?
There is an interesting paper in the program by Margaret Green that presents a case study of functional feedback (Session B) where the 24 hour feedback principle is applied. It will be interesting to see how she does it.
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