Evaluation of feedback modalities and preferences regarding feedback on decision-making in a pediatric emergency department

Objectives To compare pediatric emergency clinicians’ attitudes toward three feedback modalities and assess clinicians’ case-based feedback preferences. Methods Electronic survey sent to pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) physicians and fellows; general pediatricians; and advanced practice providers (APPs) with nine questions exploring effectiveness and emotional impact of three feedback modalities: case-based feedback, bounce-back notifications, and biannual performance reports. Additional questions used a four-point ordinal agreement response scale and assessed clinicians’ attitudes toward case review notification, case-based feedback preferences, and emotional support. Survey responses were compared by feedback modality using Pearson’s chi-squared. Results Of 165 eligible providers, 93 (56%) responded. Respondents agreed that case-based feedback was timely (81%), actionable (75%), prompted reflection on decision-making (92%), prompted research on current clinical practice (53%), and encouraged practice change (58%). Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) performance reports scored the lowest on all metrics except positive feedback. No more than 40% of providers indicated that any feedback modality provided emotional support. Regarding case-based feedback, 88% of respondents desired email notification before case review and 88% desired feedback after case review. Clinicians prefer receiving feedback from someone with similar or more experience/training. Clinicians receiving feedback desire succinctness, supporting evidence, consistency, and sensitive delivery. Conclusions Case-based feedback scored highest of the three modalities and is perceived to be the most likely to improve decision-making and promote practice change. Most providers did not perceive emotional support from any feedback modality. Emotional safety warrants purposeful attention in feedback delivery. Critical components of case-based feedback include succinctness, supporting evidence, consistency, and sensitive delivery.

The Relationship Between Language Mindsets and Feedback Preferences in L2 Writings of EFL Learners

The present study intended to investigate intermediate Iranian EFL learners’ language mindsets and examine the possible relationships between language mindsets and feedback preferences in L2 writing. To achieve these aims, 150 EFL volunteer learners were recruited from several language institutes in Isfahan, Iran, and their language proficiency level was determined through a proficiency test. The learners were then given the Language Mindsets Questionnaire and the Feedback Preferences Scale to fill out. Frequency counts, mean scores, one-sample t-tests, and SEM in Smart PLS were employed to analyze the collected data. The results of the study indicated that for the three subcomponents of the mindsets questionnaire (i.e., general language intelligence beliefs, second language aptitude beliefs, and age sensitivity beliefs about language learning), the learners did not agree (though not significantly) with the entity items, while they expressed significant agreement with the incremental items. The SEM results also revealed that the model (examining the relationship between entity/incremental mindsets and feedback preferences) indicated that entity mindsets were a significant predictor of feedback preferences, yet the incremental mindsets failed to do so. Among the feedback types, EFL learners’ preferences, in a deductive order, were found to be for commentary and conferencing significantly, and then for peer correction, prompts, self-correction to a non-significant extent. The significance of the obtained results are presented and the implications of the study are enumerated.

ESP Students’ Preferences in Learning English: Face to Face Corrective Feedback vs Online Corrective Feedback

ABSTRACT The current study aims to explore the students’ preferences on face to face corrective feedback vs online corrective feedback in ESP class. It is an attempt to investigate if they prefer to be corrected directly face to face by teachers or they like to be provided online corrective feedback by the teachers. To do so, a questionnaire was distributed to a group of students who are taking English for Specific Purposes and also focus group discussion was used in order to find out their beliefs toward their corrective feedback preferences. Totally, 50 students who were taking ESP courses at State Polytechnic of Subang participated in this study. The results from the questionnaire analysis revealed that the students preferred their teachers to use face to face corrective feedback, with an overall mean (x̄ = 3,95) in learning effectiveness, (x̄ = 4,12) in learning accuracies, and (x̄ = 4,02) in learning experiences. The focus group discussion revealed the students’ beliefs in their corrective feedback preferences, they believed that the teachers should be able to guide their learning, use communicative ways, and encourage them by using their learning preferences. The study suggested that taking these preferences into consideration could help students to increase their confidence in learning English. Keywords: Corrective Feedback, Face to face, Online, English Learning

Corrective feedback preferences of primary school and university students

Corrective feedback has attracted more and more attention as it has an important place in language teaching and learning process (Kim, 2004). In this respect, Sheen and Ellis (2011) define corrective feedback as “the feedback that learners receive on the linguistic errors they make in their oral or written production in a second language (L2)” (p. 593). The main aim of this study is to investigate the most and the least corrective feedback types preferred by primary school and university students. The participants of the study determined by the convenience sampling method comprise 50 primary school and 50 university students. Students are required to mark the feedback types they prefer when they make errors. The results indicate that recasts and asking direct questions are the most favored feedback types chosen by students despite the proficiency level gap.

Oral Corrective Feedback Preferences of University Students in English Communication Classes

The ultimate goal of teaching foreign language is to achieve an elevated level of language competence via providing maximum language exposure and minimum learner mistakes. To fulfill the goal, many strategies have been developed. One of the strategies is the provision of feedback during the formal speaking courses. Nevertheless, format of the oral corrective feedback in English as a foreign language (EFL) classes has been controversial regarding methods of correction, timing of correction and target errors. Moreover, learner attitudes toward correction are deemed to be an important component. In this study, the aim was to investigate how and when the error correction should take place in EFL communicative classes based on students’ perspectives. A total of 65 students at Kafkas University who were pre-intermediate and intermediate levels were interviewed using a self-report questionnaire, 14 of which were discarded due to irrelevant and redundant replies. The results revealed that 90% of the learners would like to be corrected when they had errors during the process of speaking English. Majority of the students indicated the preference to be corrected after finishing turn with nice and friendly manners. The results indicated that teachers should be aware of student attitudes toward oral corrective feedback.

Lecturer Formative Feedback Preferences: The Influence of Disciplines

This study attempts to determine the choice of the feedback model related to discipline categorised as hard-applied, soft-applied, hard-pure and soft-pure. It also attempts to explore the extent in which the lecturers practise socio-constructivist feedback. It was a non-experimental study conducted in an offshore campus in Malaysia of an established Australian university. The data were collected by six research assistants through semi-structured interviews involving 31 lecturers from all the seven Schools in the university. The data were transcribed and analysed using the framework method as a form of thematic analysis. Since it was a deductive study, academic disciplines were used as pre-selected themes and in each feedback category, there were pre-defined codes. The results reveal that there is no serious evidence to link discipline to the choice of feedback model. In addition, lecturers do practise socio-constructivist feedback as well as other variants of feedback.