Instructional Feedback

Low-Intensity Strategies:
Using Instructional Feedback
to Support Instruction

Low-Intensity Strategies for
Academics and Behavior
Opportunities to Respond
Behavior Specific Praise
Active Supervision
Instructional Feedback
High p Requests
Precorrection
Incorporating Choice
Self-Monitoring
Behavior
Contracts

Agenda
• What is instructional feedback?
• Why is instructional feedback effective?
• What does the supporting research for instructional
feedback say?
• What are the benefits and challenges?
• How do I implement instructional feedback in my
classroom?
Checklist for Success
• How well is it working? Examining the Effects

Comprehensive, Integrated, Three-Tiered Model of Prevention
Goal: Reduce Harm
Specialized individual systems
for students with high-risk
Academic Behavioral Social
PBIS Framework
Validated
Curricula
≈80%
≈15%
≈5%
Goal: Prevent Harm
School/classroom-wide systems
for all students, staff, & settings
Goal: Reverse Harm
Specialized group systems
for students at-risk
Primary Prevention (Tier 1)
Secondary Prevention (Tier 2)
Tertiary Prevention (Tier 3)
(Lane, Kalberg, & Menzies, 2009)

Comprehensive, Integrative,
Three-tiered (CI3T)
Models of Support
Assess, Design, Implement, and
Evaluate
Basic Classroom Management
Effective Instruction
Low Intensity Strategies
Behavior Contracts
Self-Monitoring
- -
Functional Assessment-Based
Interventions
Schoolwide Positive Behavior
Support
Low Intensity Strategies
Higher Intensity Strategies
Assessment

CI3T Primary Plan
Academics
Behavior
Social

What is instructional feedback?
• Teaching strategy to:
– Clarify misinformation
– Confirm understandings
– Fine-tune understandings
– Restructure current schemas
• Produces learning by delivering content
related information and reinforcement that
positively affects
motivation effort engagement
(Butler & Winne, 1995; Kulhavy & Wagner, 1993)

What is instructional feedback?
• Used when students
– have base of understanding
– working toward proficiency and fluency
• Two-fold Function
– Teachers gain students’ perception of instructions
• adjust instructional planning
– Students benefit from positive specific feedback
• increase intrinsic motivation (Deci & Ryan, 2000)
• increase persistence on future difficult tasks (Kamins &
Dweck, 1999)

The Learning Process
Cues
Participation
Feedback
and/or
Reinforcement
(Heward, 1994; Lysakowski & Walberg, 1982;
Miller & Dollard, 1941)

Purpose
• To close the gap between expected and
current performance in academics,
behavior, and social skills (Hattie, 2009)
• The learner must have an opportunity to
engage in an action in response to the
feedback (Gable, Hester, Rock, & Hughes, 2009)

Feedback Model
Where am I going?
What are the
goals?
How am I going?
What progress is
being made
toward the goals?
Where do I go next?
What activities need
to be undertaken to
make better
progress?
Hattie and Timperley (2007)
• Effective instructional feedback provides
information on the learning process and
content acquisition instead of the correct
response

Examples
How am I going?
“Jorge, you are using the 4-step process we learned to accurately
complete the problem.”
Where do I go next?
“Celia, please write the acronym for the 4-step process next to the
problem and cross off each step as you complete it. That will help
you keep the order of the steps.” – Error Correction
“Celia, using the mnemonic helped you apply the process to solve
the problem accurately.”
Provide feedback on malleable characteristics such as
effort.
“You included all of the elements of the essay; you did a good job
using the rubric to write your paper”

Why is Instructional Feedback
Effective?
• Serves as a motivator and reinforcer
• Provides instructional information
– Cues students to focus on key processes,
information, and concepts (Butler & Winne, 1995)
– Specific and offers support to correct content
and misunderstandings (Harks et al., 2014)
• Positive, proactive approach for correcting
learning errors
• Increases motivation (Kamins & Dweck, 1999)
• Supports intrinsic motivation

Why is Instructional Feedback
Effective?
• Feedback should be related to
– effort and actions that are malleable, not based upon
ability
– a criterion or the individual’s previous performance
• Negative effects occur when students are compared
to peers (Harks et al., 2014)
– Critical feedback creates doubt, lowers self-
confidence, and lowers motivation to attempt
difficult tasks
– Particularly true for students with EBD and LD
(Alber, Heward, & Hippler, 1999)

What does the supporting research for
instructional feedback say?
• Increased on-task behavior for students with EBD in the
general education classroom (Allday et al., 2012)
• Improve students’ math outcomes with use of strategy
feedback (process) and outcome feedback (accuracy of
response) working memory mediated the outcomes (Fyfe,
DeCaro, & Rittle-Johnson, 2015)
• Instructional feedback related to schoolwide
expectations resulted in reductions in behavioral
incidents over two years (Simonsen, Britton, & Young, 2010)

See “Instructional Feedback Resource
Guide” for additional supporting research
and information.
Supporting Research

What are the benefits and challenges?
Benefits
• Large group
• Targeted small group
• Minimal time
• Creates safe learning
environment
• Supports students in
demonstrating expected
behaviors
• Improves academic outcomes
• Increases engagement
Challenges
• Determining the best type of
feedback
• Carefully selecting words to
use
– Students may perceive feedback
as critical if care is not taken
• Measuring the effectiveness of
feedback

Provide clear directions and checks for
understanding
Opportunities for practice and feedback are
planned
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 1 Identify learning goals
Provide instruction to meet established goals
How do I implement instructional feedback in my classroom?

How do I implement instructional feedback in my classroom?
Implement active supervision and provide
instructional feedback
Provide time and direction for students to review
work or have additional opportunities to practice
Evaluate instructional practices
Offer students an opportunity to give feedback on
how instructional feedback is being offered
Step 6
Step 7
Step 8
Step 5

How do I increase Instructional
Feedback in my classroom?
Implementation checklist for success
• Step 1: Identify learning goals.
• Step 2: Provide instruction to meet
established goals.
• Step 3: Provide clear directions
and checks for understanding.
• Step 4: Opportunities for practice
and feedback are planned.
• Step 5: Implement active
supervision and provide
instructional feedback.
• Step 6: Provide time and direction
for students to review work or
have additional opportunities to
practice.
• Step 7: Evaluate instructional
practices.
• Step 8: Offer students an
opportunity to give feedback on
how instructional feedback is
being offered.
See “Instructional Feedback
Implementation Checklist for
Success”

How well is it working?
Examining the Effects
How well
did this
support
work for
this
student?
Experimental
Design
What do
stakeholders
think about
the goals,
procedures,
and
outcomes?
Social Validity
Is it
happening?
Treatment
Integrity

Student Outcomes
Baseline A1 Feedback B2Withdrawal A2Feedback B1
Panel B. Paola’s Academic Engagement and Spanish Assignment Accuracy
Figure 5.1 Examining the effects: Students’ academic engagement and assignment
accuracy: Percentage during Spanish class.
Hypothetical Illustration
(Lane, Menzies, Ennis, & Oakes, 2015)

Ensuring the Strategy is in Place:
Treatment Integrity
Have structures in place to monitor whether
instructional feedback is carried out as
intended.
Treatment integrity checklist items:
1. I identified and shared learning goals.
2. I provided instruction to meet the
established goals.
3. I provided clear directions and checked
for understanding.
4. Students had opportunities to practice.
5. I used active supervision and provided
instructional feedback.
6. I provided time, direction for students to
review work or have additional
opportunities to practice.
7. I evaluated instruction based on student
response.
See “Instructional Feedback
Treatment Integrity Checklist”

What does the student think about it?
See “Instructional Feedback Social
Validity Student”
Completed by the
student(s) participating
in the intervention at
two time points:
Pre and Post
Intervention

What does the teacher think about it?
See “Social Validity Adapted-
IRP15 Adult”
Completed by the
teacher(s) and
parent(s) involved
in the intervention
at two time points:
Pre and Post
Intervention

Sample Elementary Intervention Grid
Support Description School-wide Data:
Entry Criteria
Data to Monitor
Progress
Exit Criteria
Instructional
Feedback
Instructional
feedback refers
to detailed,
specific
information for
students from a
teacher or peer
to confirm, fine-
tune, clarify,
and restructure
current
schemas.
Verbal, written,
or technology
based specific
feedback on
processes and
progress.
One of more of the following:
Behavior:
 SRSS-E7: Moderate (4-8)
 SRSS-I5: Moderate (2-3)
 SRSS-E7: High (9-21)
 SRSS-I5: High (4-15)
 Ranking of 1, 2, or 3 on the
Motivation to Learn subscale of the
SSiS-PSG
 Two or more office discipline
referrals (ODRs) within a grading
period
___ AND ___ OR
Academic:
 Three or more assignments scoring
79% or below within a grading
period
 AIMSweb: intensive or strategic
level (math or reading)
 Progress report: Targeted for
Growth for academic learning
behaviors
Student performance
targeted for
improvement (e.g.,
homework grades, quiz
grades, test grades, %
of work completed,
academic engaged
time % of intervals).
Treatment integrity
 Implementation
checklist
 Treatment
integrity checklist
Social validity
 IRP-15 (teacher)
 Student-
completed survey
 Zero missing
assignments in a
grading period
 All assignments
scoring 80% or
higher in a grading
period
and
 SRSS-E7: Low (0-3)
 SRSS-I5: Low (0-1)
or
 Ranking of 4 or 5
on the Motivation
to Learn subscale
of SSiS-PSG

Sample Middle/High School
Intervention Grid
Support Description School-wide Data:
Entry Criteria
Data to Monitor
Progress
Exit Criteria
Instructional
Feedback
Instructional
feedback refers
to detailed,
specific
information for
students from a
teacher or peer
to confirm, fine-
tune, clarify, and
restructure
current
schemas. Verbal,
written, or
technology
based specific
feedback on
processes and
progress.
One of more of the following:
Behavior:
 SRSS-E7: Moderate (4-8)
 SRSS-I7: Moderate (cut scores coming
soon)
 SRSS-E7: High (9-21)
 SRSS-I7: High (cut scores coming soon)
 Ranking of 1, 2, or 3 on the
Motivation to Learn subscale of the
SSiS-PSG
 Two or more office discipline
referrals within a grading period
___ AND ___ OR
Academic:
 Two or more missing assignments in
any class
 Three or more assignments in any
class at C or below
 Progress report: Targeted for
Growth for academic learning
behaviors
Student performance
targeted for
improvement (e.g.,
homework grades, quiz
grades, test grades, %
of work completed,
academic engaged
time % of intervals).
Treatment integrity
 Implementation
checklist
 Treatment
integrity checklist
Social validity
 IRP-15 (teacher)
 Student-
completed survey
 Zero missing
assignments in
target class(es) for
a grading period
 2.5 GPA or higher in
a grading period
and
 SRSS-E7: Low (0-3)
 SRSS-I5: Low (0-1)
or
 Ranking of 4 or 5
on the Motivation
to Learn subscale of
SSiS-PSG

Plan:
Implementation Checklist for Success
Will you please…
Determine when you will use instructional feedback.
Make a list of instructional feedback statements you can use:
• In your classroom during various instructional activities.
• In other key areas in your building (use school expectation matrix).

Lane, K. L., Menzies, H. M., Ennis,
R. P., & Oakes, W. P. (2015).
Supporting behavior for school
success: A step-by-step guide to
key strategies. New York, NY:
Guilford Press.
Related Resource

Questions
kathleen.lane@ku.edu

Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Comprehensive,
Integrated, Three-Tiered (CI3T) Models of Prevention: Step
by Step Guide (2014). A special issue of Preventing School
Failure, volume 58, issue 3
www.tandfonline.com/toc/vpsf20/58/3
Lane, K. L., Menzies, H. M, Oakes, W. P., & Kalberg, J. R.
(2012). Systematic screenings of behavior to support
instruction: From preschool to high school. New York, NY:
Guilford Press.
Resources

Lane, K. L., Menzies, H. M., Bruhn, A.L., & Crnobori, M. (2011).
Managing Challenging Behaviors in Schools: Research-
Based Strategies That Work. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Lane, K. L., Kalberg, J. R. & Menzies, H. M. (2009). Developing
Schoolwide Programs to Prevent and Manage Problem
Behaviors: A Step-by-Step Approach. New York, NY:
Guilford Press.
Lane, K.L., Menzies, H.M., Ennis, R.P., & Oakes, W. P. (2015).
Supporting Behavior for School Success: A Step-by-Step
Guide to Key Strategies. New York, NY: Guilford.
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