Lesson 3: Recording and reporting to parents
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Feedback for target users and stakeholders
Feedback to learners
Assessment results should be conveyed to learners and used to strengthen successful performance and assist in the remediation of weak performance.
This feedback should be:
Immediate
Detailed (showing where the learner went wrong or what should have been right)
Emphasize the strengths and weaknesses of the performance
Indicate remediation
Be positive in nature
Only on minor errors
Further develop their knowledge, understanding, and skills
Support their future learning
Indicate areas of success in their work
Indicate areas for future improvement
Enable them to improve and plan their next steps
Feedback to teachers should:
Help them to check the effectiveness of instruction
Make decisions about learners’ needs to carefully plan for the next lesson
Help them to know how well their learners could reach the stated competencies
Provide them opportunities to be reflective about the academic and social progress of their learners
Support them to gain a deeper understanding of each learner’s strengths and needs
Feedback to parents should:
Provide them with clear and concrete evidence of their children’s progress
Provide adequate information to them to monitor, supervise and support their children’s work and assignments
Increase parents’ involvement in school activities
This is the end of Lesson 3.