Assessment and Feedback
Feedback is an essential part of effective learning. It helps students understand the subject being studied and gives them clear guidance on how to improve their learning. It can improve a student's confidence, self-awareness and enthusiasm for learning. That’s why, at Summerhill, we are committed to engaging students in a meaningful process of feedback that enhances learning and improves assessment performance. Feedback can take many forms across the curriculum but always has the same aim: to move learning forward. Students are very much part of this process; written feedback always requires a student response, to ensure it ‘feeds forward’ the learning. Teachers follow the principles below to ensure effective feedback is at the heart of all learning: