FEEDBACK LOG for Formative Assessment

Fall 2018
The feedback you provide to students on your scoring guides or verbally is important and critical in helping students
progress in their learning. Feedback should ALWAYS provide them with information about their strengths and their
weaknesses. How you help them use it is also critical and includes concrete reminders, PLUS the learning
experience to use the feedback.

Students do not automatically use the feedback of what you write or tell them. You will need to have conversations
with them each day to help them reflect on what you shared with them from the day before (meta-cognition). You
can also think of concrete support that may help them to reflect on the feedback. (index card with a reminder, poster,
a string on their finger).

What you are doing in this clinical practice, is what you will be doing the rest of your career. It should become part
of your daily practice and be included in your unit week, though not recorded.

Lesson Day Feedback Provided How would or will you encourage

Provide the day and content State the following:
1. Oral or written
2. What you shared
DAY 1 – ELA Whole Class- I gave oral feedback to the
(10/16/2018) students as they answered questions about
character traits, asking why they chose a
specific trait. The answers from the
students were tracked using anecdotal
notes during the lesson. I also gave
written feedback on the exit slips stating
which traits were good and which ones
could be changed. I provided the students
with more examples of character traits as
needed. I kept a checklist of how many
traits each student provided.
Student # 1 - This student needs verbal
feedback because he learns better from
oral instruction. I told him that the trait
and reason for the trait were awesome
because he was able to pick out a specific
event from the story to explain why the
main character was nice.
students to use the feedback?
I handed back the exit slips with the
written feedback. For Student 1 I
read it aloud and told him to
continue to think about traits to
describe the people around him. For
Student 2, I encouraged her to use
character traits in her future writing
to help the reader learn about the
characters. I gave them both a list
of traits on their reading levels to
use in the future.
During unit week, I will make
rubrics for the writing process and
make sure that including 3
character traits is one of the
requirements, which will be shown
to the students prior to writing.

Student # 2- This student needs written

feedback that challenges her to think more
because she is an above average student. I
wrote that 3 of the 4 given character traits
were great, but wrote that telling me
Michael Jackson is a singer does not
explain who he is. I wrote to think about
what traits make him a good singer. After
passing her exit slip back, we discussed it
and she came up with the trait creative
and I told her that was an excellent trait.
 Lesson Day Feedback Provided How would or will you encourage
Provide the day and content State the following: students to use the feedback?
1. Oral or written
2. What you shared
Day 2 – Math Whole Class: Verbal Feedback was given I encouraged the students to use the
(10/17/2018) as I went around looking at each groups feedback to think about what else
bar graph. If groups correctly identified they could use bar graphs for in real
the various parts of the bar graph, I told life.
them awesome job. If the students
identified a part incorrectly I allowed In the future when creating graphs,
them to discuss with each other and I will use a rubric that the students
answer again. Written feedback was given will review before the lesson to
on the exit slip where they identified parts make sure they include all parts of a
of a bar graph by coloring it. I either bar graph.
wrote good job, or wrote the correct
answers and told them to keep practicing.
I used a checklist to record which students
answered the questions about the bar
graph correctly.

Student #1: When walking around to the

groups, I gave this student oral feedback
because he benefits from it most. When he
incorrectly identified the part of the graph,
I stated where it was and pointed to it for
him to see.

Student #2: I gave this student written

feedback on the bar graph she printed out
and turned in writing that I liked the
categories she used on the x-axis and the
scale they created for their bar graph. I
also wrote good job labeling both axes
and the whole graph.

Day 3 – Science Whole Class: I used verbal feedback
(10/18/2018) telling the students good job if they
identified the correct state of matter that
their word belonged in. If they got it
incorrect, I asked them to think about
other solids, liquids, and gases and then
see what their element is most like. When
walking around to the groups, I gave more
verbal feedback when the students named
the states of matter their ‘ooze’ was in,
telling them “great job that is correct! It is
a liquid because it changes shape when
it’s put in the container or it is a solid
because it maintains its shape.
I told the students to think about
states of matter when they go home
to apply it to real life. I used a
checklist to track how many
students answered the questions on
both the pre- and post assessment
correctly and compared them to
find the growth.
I will continue to use checklists so
the students are aware of what they
are learning before the lesson. (I
can statements)

Student #1: After finishing the short post-

assessment quiz, I reviewed the questions
orally with the student asking why he
chose a specific answer. I explained why
his answer was wrong, and how to correct
it. When the student was able to explain
 Lesson Day Feedback Provided How would or will you encourage
Provide the day and content State the following: students to use the feedback?
1. Oral or written
2. What you shared
the correct answer I told him he did an
awesome job identifying the states of
matter and giving some examples.

Student #2: For this student, I gave

written feedback on her post-assessment
quiz stating that she did an amazing job
paying attention to the lesson because she
got all the questions correct. I also wrote
that I liked her word choice when she
stated that matter is the molecules that
make up any object that takes up space.