Research School Network: Why don’t students respond to feedback? Part of the Big Question series: exploring what shapes pupils’ responses to feedback.

The Big Question Series

Teaching involves making hundreds of decisions every day. Many of those decisions are shaped by bigger questions about how pupils learn, what motivates them and how schools can help them succeed. Each webinar in The Big Question Series starts with one of those questions and explores what the evidence can tell us about it. Along the way, we will examine different perspectives, consider the implications for practice and reflect on what this might mean for our own classrooms.

Why don’t students respond to feedback?

In this session, we will explore what the evidence can tell us about why pupils act on feedback, ignore it or reject it. We will examine the role of motivation, trust, self-efficacy, working memory and classroom culture, and the implications for classroom practice.