ABSTRACT
When your writers have been monitored, diagnosed for their learning strength or gap, offered a strategy, and given feedback in a friendly and inviting manner, they are ready to overcome their learning gap (Figure 5.1). When young writers are given time immediately after receiving formative feedback to practice and improve, they make tremendous gains (Figure 5.2). The more they delay their practice and potential improvement, the less likely they are to succeed. Medicine has the “golden hour” concept of immediacy; the greatest chance for survival of a person with multisystem trauma is within the first sixty minutes after the trauma. Our students’ golden “hour” is the time immediately after receiving the feedback; their “golden hour” is about fifteen minutes. Once they leave the classroom their likelihood of improving decreases dramatically. Also, criminal detectives report that the chance of solving a crime decreases drastically with time. The chance of students overcoming a learning gap also decreases drastically with time. The Role of Growth in Formative Assessment https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315854335/ecafce4b-8217-4443-a89c-3cc52420cdac/content/img_fig5_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Time for Growth https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315854335/ecafce4b-8217-4443-a89c-3cc52420cdac/content/img_fig5_2_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
