---
title: "On Timely Feedback"
artifact: "highlights"
resource_person: "Dylan Wiliam"
resource_person_role: "Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment, UCL"
vertical: "assessment"
module: "Feedback and Feedforward"
lesson: "On Timely Feedback"
lesson_key: "on-timely-feedback"
source: "curated"
source_channel: "Education Scotland"
---
# On Timely Feedback: Highlights

**Resource person:** Dylan Wiliam - Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment, UCL

**Curated from:** Education Scotland

1. Task-involving feedback keeps attention on the work and the next move.
2. Ego-involving feedback can shift attention toward rank, identity, or comparison.
3. Useful timing includes enough space for revision or another attempt.
4. Feedback should be specific, comprehensible, and tied to criteria.
5. A small number of high-value actions makes follow-through more likely.
6. The next performance shows whether feedback changed learning.