Using Feedback
What is feedback? Information that gives YOU a greater awareness about what you do and do not know. o Feedback can come from: Self Instructor
How Feedback Helps You Learn More engaging than reading or less active forms of studying Gives you an opportunity to do more than merely review material over and over and then hope to remember it during a quiz or test. Think of activities that force you to practice recall--to actually pull content from your memory. o These types of activities are more hands-on and will provide you with self-feedback.
Ways to get self-feedback: 1.You can quiz yourself (e.g. flash cards or mock tests) 2.You can have someone else quiz you. 3.You can explain the concept/how to do the problem to someone else from memory. 4.You can paraphrase/recite the content/procedure aloud from memory. 5.You can write out summaries of chapters, concepts, theories, problems, processes, etc., from memory. 6.You can develop and be able to explain a new example of the idea/solve a new problem.
Self-Feedback 1.List all the things you did to prepare for the most recent test you took. 2.How did doing or not doing those things affect your score on the test? 3.What would you change—or keep—as a preparation strategy?
Self-Feedback Based on the wellness paragraph you read last class, please rate your understanding of that material on a scale of 1-5, 5 being a deep lasting understanding of what you read. How did you assess your own understanding? What type of self-feedback could you use to master the information you read? If it was a 4 or less, how could you improve?
Instructor Feedback What kinds of instructor feedback do you get? What do you do with it?
Example of Instructor Feedback Your instructor returns to you an exam with five problems marked wrong. What do you do with this feedback?
Instructor Feedback 1. Content errors a. not knowing a concept/procedure b. misunderstanding a concept/procedure c. not remembering something you had learned d. studying the wrong material e. errors applying a concept/following a procedure f. sign errors 2. Test procedure errors a. misreading/not reading directions/not following directions b. taking too long on a question c. changing answers d. rushing e. misreading a problem f. sign errors
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