Feedback Thoughts

Feedback Photo. Source: Ausmed
The first article I read was Try Feedforward Instead of Feedback. The thought of feedforward means to give suggestions aimed at helping the other person change. The idea is that providing feedforward rather than feedback, is less embarrassing and critical to the people on the receiving end. It's supposed to help people learn what they did right rather than what they did wrong. Feedforward suggestions aren't taken as personally as feedback and make people more accepting of the suggestions. It also tends to be much faster and more efficient than feedback.

The second article I read was The Difference Between Praise and Feedback. This article was mainly parenting focused so it took some rethinking to get it to apply to the classroom. The other makes three main points of process praise, praise and personhood and praise vs. feedback. The first point of process praise describes praising the process of the activity or situation the person completed. You're reinforcing the effort that was put into the activity rather than the person themselves. The second point of praise and personhood suggests that praise is manipulative and intrusive. The third point of praise vs. feedback is that parents tend to overpraise their kids. This can also be true when giving feedback in educational situations. Other students are afraid of hurting their classmates feelings so they overcompensate with praise.

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