Feedback is so key.

Interesting..............

In a book titled Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, surgeon Atul Gawande (2007) writes about cases in which failure to follow basic medical practices compromises the physician's oath to reduce patient pain and mortality. For example, since the mid-1800s, members of the medical profession have recognized hand washing as an effective way to prevent infection and thus reduce pain and mortality. Even so, Gawande reports, hospital employees have astonishingly low compliance rates with hand washing guidelines. Despite "knowing better," these medical personnel systematically neglect a well-known, research-verified practice that "makes patients better." There's an analogy to be drawn between the physician's oath and our oath, as educators, to improve student learning. Is there a technique or research-based finding that we know improves learning but that we must learn or be reminded to apply conscientiously and systematically? We say yes. It is feedback.

Jane Pollock's book, Feedback : The Hinge That Joins Teaching and Learning is excellent.