Formative Feedback in a Malaysian Primary School ESL Context.
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: The idea of providing students with formative feedback is a crucial part of formativeassessment. Teachers need to provide students with feedback that improves their learning.In other words, formative feedback should provide learners with information that helpthem bridge their learning gap. As formative assessment itself is a newly introducedproduct in an innovative transformation introduced by the Ministry of Education, Malaysia,it would be particularly interesting to investigate how formative feedback which is the maincomponent of formative assessment is being implemented. To answer this main question,classroom observations were conducted and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) were carriedout with a group of primary school ESL teachers in Malaysia. The results indicated thatusing feedback systematically to support learning is rare and teachers are not aware ofstrategies to implement formative feedback to improve students’ learning and use theinformation in their future instruction.
Author: Sedigheh Abbasnasab Sardareh
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2409381630