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Explanation feedback will make a huge difference to how much you learn from online activities
A lot of digital support is dated and uninspiring due to a binary approach that simply marks answers. The way to accelerate learning is via answer explanations so that young people can learn more than if answers were correct or incorrect. Over 10m words of explanations means every learner has the chance to improve.
Influential research by Butler, Godbole & Marsh, Journal of Ed Psych, 2013 (cited 93 times according to www.researchgate.net) helps to illustrate just how important this level of feedback can be. This research and a bit of teaching intuition inspired EzyEducation to create a formative assessment model.
In the referenced research three groups of students completed an online physiology assessment. Each group received different forms of feedback – no feedback, correct answer or explanation. The students were tested again two days later with 50% of the questions repeated and 50% new inference questions (similar subject focus but producing a different answer).
The results showed that correct answer feedback and explanation feedback led to equivalent performance on the repeated questions, but explanation feedback produced superior performance on the new inference questions
Users also have a personalised gradebook with dynamic question level analysis backed by single touch/click access to images of every marked question attempt and an explanation.
Engagement
Unless a young person is committed to learning or is closely supervised it is unlikely that any learning support will result in good engagement. However, with the right level of encourage and supervision great things are possible.
When a young person is committed to learning EzyEducation’s modern approach helps young learners quickly accumulate 1,000s of questions. A Y11 GCSE Maths student (supported out of school by a tutor at the Learning Cabin) has achieved incredible activity in 12 months of Lockdown. This was in addition to any work set by school.
All activity is captured and stored in accessible formats. No need to ask your home learner how hard they have been working. You just need to look at the records.
How EzyEducation helps school students to succeed
It works well in many schools as we also help teachers as much as we help their students. Students have reliable and effective formative assessment support which enables higher levels of automated independent learning. This means teacher admin and basic content and assessment activities are reduced so there is more time for teaching.
“EzyEducation’s approach inspired me to think about how I could find more time in preparation and class to develop key skills. This was achieved by effectively outsourcing a lot of content delivery, increasing student independent learning and capturing learning data that really helps me to make a difference for my students. The value added achieved by the first cohort to fully benefit from these changes speaks for itself.”
Roger Bottomley, Economics Lead, Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School