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  • Actual student-written formative feedback statements

    It’s coming up to lunchtime on the first day of our peer feedback experiment, and I’m incredibly excited at how well it is going. We have had about 1000 peer-written statements in so far and I wanted to share some of the best of them with you. If the authors of these are your students,…

  • How Yacapaca Boosts Exam Results

    Yacapaca is designed to boost results across your school or college. Here’s how: Know what your students know with analytics From question-by-question detail, through key concept analysis, per-topic progression through the

  • Yacapaca Gradebook and Feedback

    This is a guest post by Mr Chris Coleman, AST for E-Learning, Conyers School & Sixth Form College As a teacher of ICT, I am always striving to provide opportunities for students to access learning where feedback is not only summative but also personalised and formative. Over the last five years, Yacapaca has proven to…

  • How to give formative feedback

    I’m talking here particularly about feedback in multiple-choice quizzes. For correct responses, do… extend the student’s

  • When is the best time to give feedback?

    We have always put great stress on the formative value of good feedback in Yacapaca quizzes. There is something about getting instant results that really engages the brain, and that creates a fantastic, but fleeting, opportunity to hit the student with an insight or challenge. Sometimes this works, but sometimes it does not. I have…