Use writing feedback to revise and practise again
Turn feedback into a revision plan. Review the criteria, rewrite a passage and apply what you learned to your next writing task.
Traditional writing assessment often means two or three high-stakes pieces per term and feedback weeks later. By then the draft is cold. A formative writing feedback loop flips that: short, frequent marks against criteria while you still care about the piece — then a second attempt that proves the fix.
Click through the interactive tour — submit, rubric, quote-anchored marks, fix rows, past feedback — then use the weekly plan underneath.
The Study Lab loop (one week)
- Monday — produce. One complete response (typed or handwritten photo) to a real task.
- Same day — mark. Get your Mark for criterion scores and quote-anchored notes.
- Tuesday — fix two rows. Rewrite only the criteria that cost the most. Closed-book if it is exam prep.
- Thursday — sit again. New prompt, same genre, soft or full clock. Compare Past feedback side by side.
- Friday — plan. Log remaining gaps on your improvement plan; if MCQ practice is in the mix, park misses in the Mistake Book.
Why this beats “ask chat to improve my essay”
Unrestricted AI chat can raise assisted performance while weakening unassisted exams when students offload the hard work (see field evidence such as Bastani et al., PNAS 2025 — cite carefully; it is not a RubricMark trial). Formative loops keep productive struggle: you write, then AI marks, then you rewrite. Success is the cold re-sit — not a fluent rewrite the model produced for you.
Map the loop to exam pathways
- NAPLAN writing: genre weeks + NAPLAN marking mode · format guide
- NSW Selective writing: form practice + Selective feedback · Selective guide
- HAST written expression: task-type prompts + HAST feedback · HAST guide
- School coursework: upload the teacher rubric or use Rubi assessment on ordinary essays
Progress tracking without a school analytics suite
You do not need a Year 1–12 institutional dashboard to see growth. Keep three artefacts:
- Past feedback library (criterion tables across drafts)
- A simple note of which two criteria you targeted each week
- Timed Practice Hub sits that show whether fixes survive a clock
That is writing progress tracking for a personal study companion — Study Lab, Practice Hub, and rubric feedback on one account.
Bottom line
Formative assessment for writing is a loop, not a lecture. Mark in Study Lab, fix what the rubric flags, sit again, and measure unassisted improvement. That is how AI writing tools help in a similar way to school formative platforms — built for the learner who still does the thinking.