Jeff Kerssen-Griep and Clayton L. Terry

12Communicating Instructional Feedback: Definitions, Explanations, Principles, and Questions

Abstract: Feedback is instructional communication that references learners’ performance relative to a desired performance standard and helps them correct, affirm, and restructure what they know of their subjects and themselves. A complex social intervention, feedback’s effects are achieved and its meanings interpreted by participants relative to their cultural, organizational, situational, and relational contexts. Although little one-size-fits-all guidance has emerged after decades of research, feedback modeling and guidance have developed in sophistication and nuance as scholars increasingly account for the braided ...

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