Do people often give face to face feedback in your country? what kind of feedback is most useful? How can you give feedback in a constructive, helpful way?
1. Do people often give face to face feedback in your country?
Yes. But it is not common in Korea. In my case, I give face to face feedback indirectly while talking about school life. If there is a strong interpersonal relationship between teachers and students, giving face to face feedback will be a pleasant time but if not, it will be a disaster to both of them.
2. What kind of feedback is most useful? How can you give feedback in a constructive, helpful way?
I would say it depends on the situation and the problem. However, giving feedback in an email is one of the most useful ways because I can reconsider the situation over and over again as typing it and I can erase or correct easily many times before sending it. But giving face to face feedback can be dangerous in that I can't correct or send it back once I say something. If giving feedback to children, at first, I would give positive feedback and then negative feedback in a soft voice along with various solutions to problems.
Receiving feedback from teachers wasn't regular in class. Being graded was what we got from teachers. I would say we don't feel comfortable with feedback because we are not used to getting it. While working in this program, I knew receiving feedback is very helpful for my progression. I think giving students clear instruction on what is expected of them in the course or assignment, offering the materials or ways to use to meet the needs and giving feedback accordingly will give students a sense of assistance and fairness. Having students feel cared for is the most important factor to consider when teachers give feedback than any other sophisticated methods.
1. Do people often give face to face feedback in your country?
In Korea, face to face feedback is not common. Usually, I received the completed scores or interim scores as the course is in progress. It was very common for us to accept them. Only when there was a big gap between what I expected and what I actually received, I raised a question. In such a case, teachers or professors gave me reasons or revised them accepting my points. Unless students ask the reason for specific scores especially, it is very natural in Korea that teachers notify the completed assessment and students just confirm them.
2. What kind of feedback is most useful? How can you give feedback in a constructive, helpful way?
I think the feedback that has both compliments and suggestions is very effective. A one-sided feedback including only suggestions or pointing out students’ faults can cause them to be in low spirits. It would be contribute to writer’s low desire for writing. If appropriate compliments are offered for writers, they can make an effort to improve their writing, believing their possibilities. I think I can give constructive and helpful feedback by articulating what aspects are making their writing strong and weak. Also, surely feedback should include all concerns about organization, content, and grammar.
It depends on the indivudual. Learning styles could probably a factor too, I think. From my experience, it usually worked for unconfident, shy students. Impersonality in words in written feedback or grade often discourage those students. In that sense, tact plays an important role in giving oral feedback. Face to face feedback based on affective approach fills the gap between the teacher and the student. However, some students prefer clear, objective written feedback. They are usually highly competent learners who are able to fix their problem by themselves. In sum, a teacher's careful choice of the form of feedback according to each student or student group should be the key.
In Korea, giving feedback face to face is not common. Professors or teachers tend to grade students' performances with a letter grade and that is all. They might offer feedback, but they usually write down some comments instead of giving them face to face. However, when I learned how to write a paper from an American professor at collage, she used the direct way of providing feedback; face to face. At first, I was embarrassed in front of her because I felt she was pointing out all my mistakes. However, she approached to me by giving me an impression as a helper for my improvement. After I checked her intension, I was fine at accepting comments for improvements. The most useful feedback can be done orally. Writing comments could be useful, too. However, providing comments is only one-way feedback. Oral feedback is done two-way and interactively. This can reduce possibility from being confused what the comments mean.
1. Do people often give face to face feedback in your country?
Yes, they give face to face feedback often. But it is not very common in Korea, as we are just shown our grades as the course progresses.
2. What kind of feedback is most useful? How can you give feedback in a constructive, helpful way?
For me, a face to face or personal feedback would be most useful for me. I would really appreciate comments from people when they are done personally since it is only then that they are honest and straight to the point of what they want to point out. And when it's face to face, it would be easier for me to clear things up if they are confused about something that they gave a feedback on.
Writing the points down would be a very helpful and constructive way of giving a feedback. It helps you make sure that you don't miss anything out. The only downside to that is difficulty for the person you are giving a feedback about to respond to your feedbacks. An interactive and two-way feedback and replying would be very helpful as it could help clear misunderstood parts.
1. Do people often give face to face feedback in your country?
ReplyDeleteYes. But it is not common in Korea. In my case, I give face to face feedback indirectly while talking about school life. If there is a strong interpersonal relationship between teachers and students, giving face to face feedback will be a pleasant time but if not, it will be a disaster to both of them.
2. What kind of feedback is most useful? How can you give feedback in a constructive, helpful way?
I would say it depends on the situation and the problem. However, giving feedback in an email is one of the most useful ways because I can reconsider the situation over and over again as typing it and I can erase or correct easily many times before sending it. But giving face to face feedback can be dangerous in that I can't correct or send it back once I say something.
If giving feedback to children, at first, I would give positive feedback and then negative feedback in a soft voice along with various solutions to problems.
Receiving feedback from teachers wasn't regular in class. Being graded was what we got from teachers. I would say we don't feel comfortable with feedback because we are not used to getting it. While working in this program, I knew receiving feedback is very helpful for my progression. I think giving students clear instruction on what is expected of them in the course or assignment, offering the materials or ways to use to meet the needs and giving feedback accordingly will give students a sense of assistance and fairness. Having students feel cared for is the most important factor to consider when teachers give feedback than any other sophisticated methods.
ReplyDelete1. Do people often give face to face feedback in your country?
ReplyDeleteIn Korea, face to face feedback is not common. Usually, I received the completed scores or interim scores as the course is in progress. It was very common for us to accept them. Only when there was a big gap between what I expected and what I actually received, I raised a question. In such a case, teachers or professors gave me reasons or revised them accepting my points. Unless students ask the reason for specific scores especially, it is very natural in Korea that teachers notify the completed assessment and students just confirm them.
2. What kind of feedback is most useful? How can you give feedback in a constructive, helpful way?
I think the feedback that has both compliments and suggestions is very effective. A one-sided feedback including only suggestions or pointing out students’ faults can cause them to be in low spirits. It would be contribute to writer’s low desire for writing. If appropriate compliments are offered for writers, they can make an effort to improve their writing, believing their possibilities. I think I can give constructive and helpful feedback by articulating what aspects are making their writing strong and weak. Also, surely feedback should include all concerns about organization, content, and grammar.
It depends on the indivudual. Learning styles could probably a factor too, I think. From my experience, it usually worked for unconfident, shy students. Impersonality in words in written feedback or grade often discourage those students. In that sense, tact plays an important role in giving oral feedback. Face to face feedback based on affective approach fills the gap between the teacher and the student. However, some students prefer clear, objective written feedback. They are usually highly competent learners who are able to fix their problem by themselves. In sum, a teacher's careful choice of the form of feedback according to each student or student group should be the key.
ReplyDeleteIn Korea, giving feedback face to face is not common. Professors or teachers tend to grade students' performances with a letter grade and that is all. They might offer feedback, but they usually write down some comments instead of giving them face to face. However, when I learned how to write a paper from an American professor at collage, she used the direct way of providing feedback; face to face. At first, I was embarrassed in front of her because I felt she was pointing out all my mistakes. However, she approached to me by giving me an impression as a helper for my improvement. After I checked her intension, I was fine at accepting comments for improvements.
ReplyDeleteThe most useful feedback can be done orally. Writing comments could be useful, too. However, providing comments is only one-way feedback. Oral feedback is done two-way and interactively. This can reduce possibility from being confused what the comments mean.
1. Do people often give face to face feedback in your country?
ReplyDeleteYes, they give face to face feedback often. But it is not very common in Korea, as we are just shown our grades as the course progresses.
2. What kind of feedback is most useful? How can you give feedback in a constructive, helpful way?
For me, a face to face or personal feedback would be most useful for me. I would really appreciate comments from people when they are done personally since it is only then that they are honest and straight to the point of what they want to point out. And when it's face to face, it would be easier for me to clear things up if they are confused about something that they gave a feedback on.
Writing the points down would be a very helpful and constructive way of giving a feedback. It helps you make sure that you don't miss anything out. The only downside to that is difficulty for the person you are giving a feedback about to respond to your feedbacks. An interactive and two-way feedback and replying would be very helpful as it could help clear misunderstood parts.