No matter how successful a student is, there is always more that can be learned .It can be all too tempting to scrimp on feedback for students who are advanced because they are doing fine without it (in fact, this is the same argument for getting rid of GATE services and programs in many districts across the US). However, this would be a mistake. Learning is a process and advanced students have not arrived at the end of that process simply because they can demonstrate mastery of grade level concepts and skills.
According to Brookhart, advanced students benefit from the same type of feedback that all other students benefit from: task and process focused, criterion-referenced, positive, clear, and specific. Feedback for advanced students, just like for all students, needs to feed-forward. Though an advanced student may have fulfilled the requirements of the assignment, flawlessly even, a teacher can still use feedback to provoke thought and offer further direction, making "a suggestion for a next step, mindful that the next step may be an enrichment of the basic learning goals."
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