Give efficient feedback on a batch of secondary school assignments

Context

A secondary school teacher in any subject who has 30 or more similar assignments (reports, essays, projects) to give feedback on, and wants a system that produces useful comments without copying the same thing to everyone.

Paste first

Before opening the model, prepare:

• The rubric or assessment criteria you used (if you have no rubric, describe the criteria in words)
• A summary of what you saw across the batch: what were the most frequent errors? what did most students do well?
• Three or four "work profiles" that group assignments by performance (e.g.: assignments with good argument but poor structure; complete assignments but no evidence; incomplete assignments)
• For each profile: an anonymized 3-5 line description of what that type of assignment looks like

Privacy rule: Do not paste names, ID numbers, or class register data. Describe assignments by profile, not by student.

Act as a {{subject}} teacher for {{grade level}} with experience in formative feedback at scale — that is, comments that are useful, specific, and different for different groups of students, without requiring writing from scratch each time.

I have {{number}} assignments to review. I grouped them into profiles based on performance. For each profile I need a base comment that I can lightly personalize before handing back.

**Subject and grade level:** {{subject}} — {{grade level}}

**Assessed task:** {{brief description of the task}}

**Assessment criteria:**
{{list the criteria you used}}

**Work profiles:**

*Profile A — {{descriptive name, e.g. "good idea, weak structure"}}:*
{{describe in 3-5 lines what these assignments have in common, without naming anyone}}

*Profile B — {{descriptive name}}:*
{{description}}

*Profile C — {{descriptive name}}:*
{{description}}

{{add more profiles if needed}}

**What I need per profile:**
1. A 6-8 sentence comment that acknowledges what they did well, points out the most important thing to improve, and gives a concrete action suggestion.
2. The comment should be easy for me to personalize: leave a marker {{here}} where I need to add something specific about the individual assignment.
3. Write it in the second person, in a direct but respectful tone appropriate for {{grade level}} students.

Expected output

**Base comment — Profile A: good idea, weak structure**

Your assignment has an interesting central idea and it's clear you engaged with the topic. {{Add a reference to the specific argument or example from this assignment here}}.

The main thing to work on now is structure: the introduction doesn't preview what you're going to argue, and the reader reaches the conclusion without knowing exactly what you wanted to demonstrate. For the next assignment, try writing the conclusion first and then build the text toward it.

{{Add a comment about a specific positive element you noticed in this particular assignment}}.

Watch out for

• Don't paste student names or identifying data. The profile system exists precisely so you can work without exposing individual data to the model.
• The base comment the model generates is a starting point, not the final version. If you hand it as-is to 10 different students, it loses its formative value.
• Be careful with Profile C (assignments with major difficulties): the base comment may come out too harsh or too soft. Read it carefully before adapting.

Suggested iteration

If the comments came out too generic, ask: "Profile B assignments all share a specific problem: lack of empirical evidence, not just weak structure. Rewrite the comment focusing on that specific issue, with an example of what good evidence use looks like." If you also want group feedback to share in class, ask: "Write a 4-5 sentence paragraph to share with the whole class — the strengths I saw overall and the one priority improvement area for everyone."