How Can You Give Student Feedback In Large Classrooms?

Contributed by Rich Ross
10/2021 – TeachThought

“I’ve been teaching the Introduction to Statistical Analysis course (STAT 2120) at the University of Virginia for a few years now, and with an enrollment around 500 students per term, there is a lot to do. All told, students typically submit about 60 assignments in the class. I’m fortunate to have the support of more than a dozen graders and two graduate students for the course; even so, grading so many assignments for hundreds of students can take a lot of time.

Here are three strategies I use in my course to make this process meaningful rather than tedious. All three strategies focus on providing students with useful and detailed feedback on their work.”…Read about how you can give student feedback in a large classrooms here.