We ran a project like this last year, but gave schools very short notice about the redraft. This meant that whilst approximately 36,000 students from 900 schools took part in the original assessment, only 3,851 from 73 schools took part in the follow up. This year we have given schools more notice, so we hope that we’ll get more taking part in the redraft.
The project is not a gold-standard randomised controlled trial, but it will still provide schools with rapid and useful information about how students respond to feedback. It would also be possible to use the same Comparative Judgement plus AI write-feedback-redraft model as part of an RCT.
Improving the feedback
We’re also planning a couple of changes to the feedback that students get.