Find out what is required

Make improvements

This section is easy enough. You make improvements based on your feedback! The important thing to remember about making improvements to your work is that you will need to get more feedback! ARRGGHH! It is a cycle of feedback to improvement back to feedback. This continues until you and your teacher is happy with your work.

It is tempting to leave your work as it is. However you will never get the best marks and you may have a very nasty shock when you start work in the real world!

This is why the quality of your feedback is so important. If you do not get ideas on how to improve your work then you may never be able to get it to the grade you want to.

Consider the following example. A student created the following piece of work which was supposed to invite people to a dancing competition.


Original Invitation	Final Invitation

Before the student made any improvements he had to get feedback. The feedback he got was -

Positives

Great design, it is interesting and not too busy or distracting
Kept to colour scheme and themes
Enthusiastic and informative text

Improvements

Image becomes pixelated when printed
Not quite A4 sized. Was that intentional?
Hyphenation of “sponsorship form”
The key information at the bottom is a little hard to read.
The right hand side looks a bit dull, could do with something to make it more interesting.

Here the feedback has suggested some ideas for the student to look at. It has highlighted strengths and weaknesses and suggested areas the student could focus on. The final invitation has taken these ideas onboard.

Ask your test buddy for feedback on your improvements!