Using Feedback

Feedback: Awareness of what you do and don’t know

Success Autobiographies

• Your instructor returns to you an exam with five problems marked wrong.•What do you do with this feedback?•Write out your response to be turned in.

Learning• 2 minute paper:

o Think about at least one specific skill you have mastery of now and remember learning.• Examples:

o How to make a jump shoto How to play an instrumento How to parallel parko How to painto How to make something using computer software

o Summarize the process of learning briefly:• Were you an expert from the start? Did

you have any problems learning how to do it right? How did you know when you had mastered the skill?

How Feedback Helps Your Learn

• Don’t just review material over and over and then hope to remember it during a quiz or test.

• What are some specific ways you can take time during reading and studying to check on whether or not you are really learning and understanding?

• Think of activities thato Require you to practice recall--to actually pull content

from your memory.o Provide you with feedback (awareness of what you know

and don’t know).

How to get self-feedback:

1. You can quiz yourself. (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• Read the handout and then rate your

understanding of it on a scale of 1-5, 5 being a deep lasting understanding of what you read.

• How did you assess your own understanding?• If it was a 4 or less, how could you improve?

• My turn to assess your understanding!

Instructor Feedback• What

kinds of instructor feedback do you get?

• What do you do with it?

Instructor Feedback1. Content errors

a. not knowing a concept/procedureb. misunderstanding a concept/procedurec. not remembering something you had learnedd. studying the wrong materiale. errors applying a concept/following a proceduref. sign errors

2. Test procedure errorsa. misreading/not reading directions/not following directionsb. taking too long on a questionc. changing answersd. rushinge. misreading a problemf. sign errors

• How to shoot a jump shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6gsevzCAnA

Scenarios Game