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Version 1.2 – Updated June 2023

Feedback (Timing)

Overview

  • Influence: Feedback (Timing)
  • Domain: Teaching Strategies
  • Sub-Domain: Feedback
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
  • Influence Definition: The timing of feedback - immediate or delayed.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 2
  • Number of studies: 134
  • Number of students: 24,474
  • Number of effects: 134
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.89
  • 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
Review of Educational Research Kulik & Kulik USA Timing of feedback and verbal learning 1988 Timing of feedback 53 0 53 0.49
Communication Monographs Witt, Wheeless, & Allen USA A meta-analytical review of the relationship between teacher immediacy and student learning. 2004 Immediacy of teacher feedback 81 24,474 81 1.15
TOTAL/AVERAGE 134 24,474 134 0.82
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