Feedback Strategies: Giving Feedback

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I've always had mixed feelings about receiving praise. Of course it's feels good when someone acknowledges your hard work, but it usually doesn't start a conversation. It has been my experience (which is mostly in face to face discussions) that praise isn't usually followed up with a conversation going into detail about why something or other worked and how it affected the work as a whole. Instead simple praise usually leads to smiles and thanks, but not a lot of useful feedback for the future. Even though I feel this way about receiving praise myself, I still usually do it when asked for feedback by someone else, so I'm going to try to apply some of what I read this week in the future.

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In both of the articles I read there was a focus on providing praise based on the process which I think is more constructive because it can be used to inform the process the next time a similar task is attempted. Both articles also emphasize feedback techniques that require the commenter to be engaged with what they are commenting on and to be thoughtful of what the person receiving feedback will get out of their comments. I'm going to try and be conscious of both of these themes when providing feedback in this course and beyond .



Articles:
Be a Mirror: Give Readers Feedback That Fosters a Growth Mindset by Gravity Goldberg

Comments

  1. Kasey GillApril 8, 2018 at 6:03 PM

    I have to totally agree with almost everything you have to say here. I always had mixed feelings about feedback as well. Being in the sciences when we go to publish our work we always have to deal with feedback from peer reviews and in most cases the comments are not the nicest lol. But in all feedback is always needed to improve ones work, no matter what it is,

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