How Better Feedback Can Revolutionize Education (with Daisy Christodoulou)

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🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Feedback on exams and papers--grades and comments--should be more than an assessment. It should point the way to improvement. So argues educational consultant Daisy Christodoulou, emphasizing that actionable feedback has to be more than comments scribbled in the margins of a paper or at its end. Listen as she speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about a new model for enabling educational improvement, with implications for learning to get better at writing and just about everything.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.9	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Sholem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:36.6	Today is March 3rd, 2025, and before introducing today's guests, I want to share the results
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1:41.7	with Richard Reeves and tied for first place two episodes,
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