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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Feedback (Tasks & Processes)

Overview

  • Influence: Feedback (Tasks & Processes)
  • Domain: Teaching Strategies
  • Sub-Domain: Feedback
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
  • Influence Definition: Feedback aimed more at improving the content or facts or ideas.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 11
  • Number of studies: 161
  • Number of students: 1,851
  • Number of effects: 222
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.63
  • Robustness index: 3

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Dissertation Miller USA The effectiveness of corrective feedback: A meta-analysis 2003 Corrective feedback on learning 8 0 8 1.08
Studies in Second Language Acquisition Lyster & Saito Canada Oral Feedback in Classroom SLA 2010 Oral feedback on learning 15 0 28 0.74
Modern Language Journal Kang & Han USA The efficacy of written corrective feedback in improving L2 written accuracy: A meta-analysis. 2015 Corrective feedback on learning 22 0 22 0.68
Language Learning Li USA The Effectiveness of Corrective Feedback in SLA: A Meta-Analysis 2010 Corrective feedback on learning 28 0 28 0.61
Journal of Second Language Writing Truscott Taiwan The effect of error correction on learners' ability to write accurately 2007 Error correction on writing 6 283 20 0.15
Book Russell & Spada Canada The effectiveness of corrective feedback for the acquisition of L2 grammar: A meta-analysis of the research 2006 Error correction on writing 15 0 15 1.16
Language Teaching Research Brown USA The type and linguistic foci of oral corrective feedback 2016 Oral corrective feedback 28 0 52 0.15
Asia-Pacific Education Researcher Lv, Ren, & Xie China The Effects of Online Feedback on ESL/EFL Writing: A Meta-Analysis. 2021 Oral feedback on learning 17 1,568 17 0.75
TESL-EJ Kao Taiwan Effects of focused feedback on the acquisition of two English articles. 2013 Focused feedback 7 0 7 0.70
Journal of Research in Reading Swart, Nielen, & Sikkema-de Jong Netherlands Does feedback targeting text comprehension trigger the use of reading strategies or changes in readers' attitudes? A meta-analysis.  2022 Feedback targeting comprehension 8 0 8 0.61
Dissertation Brobst USA A Meta-analysis of Studies on Error Correction in Second Language Writing 2009 Error correction on writing 7 0 17 0.55
TOTAL/AVERAGE 161 1,851 222 0.65
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