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This wiki explores how to use the Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO Taxonomy) (Biggs, J.B., & Collis, K.F. 1982) in "feed up", "feedback" and "feed forward" to raise student achievement.
- Feed Up - Where am I going? (the goals)
- Feed Back - How am I going?
- Feed Forward - Where to next?
Effective feedback prompts students (and teachers) to engage with the necessary content, processes and/or self-regulation to reach an intended learning outcome.
Improving the effectiveness of feedback is a challenge for educators, one which can be achieved by improving its clarity, purpose, logic, meaning and or proximity to existing understanding.
SOLO is used to help students to clarify intended learning outcomes, explain the learning purpose of effective strategies, self assess learning outcomes with SOLO coded success criteria in text based and visual rubrics, and explain their ‘where to next’ steps in learning logs.
The implications for using SOLO in student feedback are developed in terms of student ability to:
- monitor, regulate and reflect on their own task understanding;
- give effective feeback to teachers and peers on what happens next;
- follow through - so that “what happens next?” is what happens next;