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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Feedback

Overview

  • Influence: Feedback
  • Domain: Teaching Strategies
  • Sub-Domain: Feedback
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
  • Influence Definition: Feedback is information provided by an agent (e.g., teacher, peer, book, parent, self/experience) regarding aspects of one's performance or understanding that reduces the discrepancy between what is understood, what is aimed to be understood, and where to move next in their learning.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 10
  • Number of studies: 1,116
  • Number of students: 13,396
  • Number of effects: 3,433
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.50
  • Robustness index: 5

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Child Education Jeong-Hwa & Byung-gee Korea A meta-analysis of feedback effects on academic achievement. 2019 Feedback 180 0 1,393 0.59
Journal of Research in Science Teaching Yeany & Miller USA Effects of diagnostic/remedial instruction on science learning: A meta analysis 1983 Diagnostic feedback in college science 49 0 49 0.52
Psychological Bulletin Kluger & DeNisi Israel The effects of feedback interventions on performance: A historical review, a meta-analysis, and a preliminary feedback intervention theory 1996 Feedback 470 12,652 470 0.38
Human Performance Neubert USA The value of feedback and goal setting over goal setting alone and potential moderators of this effect: A meta-analysis 1998 Goals plus feedback 16 744 16 0.63
Advances in Health Sciences Education Hatala, Cook, Zendejas, Hamstra, & Brydges Canada Feedback for simulation-based procedural skills training: a meta-analysis and critical narrative synthesis. 2014 Feedback for simulation skills 31 0 31 0.74
Report Biber, Nekrasova, & Horn USA The effectiveness of feedback for L1-English and L2 writing development: A meta-analysis. 2011 Feedback in ESL Writing and Reading 25 0 88 0.87
Asian EFL Journal Thirakunkovit & Chamcharatsri Thailand A meta-analysis of effectiveness of teacher and peer feedback: Implications for writing instructions and research. 2019 Teacher feedback 27 0 52 0.90
Korean Association for Children's Education Lee & Bak Korea A Meta-Analysis of Feedback Effects on Academic Achievement 2018 Feedback 180 0 991 0.59
Journal of Educational Psychology Mertens, Finn, & Lindner USA Effects of computer-based feedback on lower- and higher-order learning outcomes: A network meta-analysis. 2022 Computer presented feedback 77 0 163 0.40
Conference paper Gui, Cai, Mao, & Wang China The effect of feedback on learning in technology-rich learning environments: A three-level meta-analysis 2022 Feedback in rich technology contexts 61 0 180 0.44
TOTAL/AVERAGE 1,116 13,396 3,433 0.61
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