Better Programming Feedback

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Last edit: 11 June 2026

Resource Type References, Guidebooks and Handbooks

Curriculum Topic Design & Development, Programming

English Key Stage 7-11 year (KS2), 11-14 year (KS3), 14-16 years (KS4), 16-18 Years (KS5)

Awarding Bodies AQA, OCR, WJEC EDQAS, City & Guilds, NCFE, Pearson / Edexcel, CCEA

A few years ago I spent three hours on a Sunday writing detailed comments on 28 Year 10 programs. On Monday, one student read them.

That sent me down a rabbit hole of feedback research (the EEF's review of written marking found the evidence base "remarkably thin", and Kluger and DeNisi found a third of feedback interventions actually harm performance) and a lot of classroom trial and error. The result is a short guide: four techniques that replaced most of my written marking, including live marking with pre-planned prompts and whole-class feedback, plus three printable tools (a peer review card, a focused mark scheme, a pre-marking checklist).

More free resources available at https://www.codebash.co.uk/resources

Eoin