Types of feedback
I can identify and use different types of feedback to improve performance.
Types of feedback
I can identify and use different types of feedback to improve performance.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Intrinsic feedback comes from the performer's own senses and feelings.
- Extrinisic feedback comes from external sources such as coaches, peers or parents.
- Feedback can be either positive or negative depending on whether it focuses on correct or incorrect actions.
- Knowledge of results is feedback concerned with the outcome of movement.
- Knowledge of performance is feedback concerned with how well movements are performed.
Keywords
Intrinsic feedback - feedback received via receptors in the muscles or sensations that are felt by the performer, providing information from movement
Extrinsic feedback - feedback received from outside of the performer, e.g. from a coach
Knowledge of results - feedback related to the outcome of a performance such as the result or final position
Knowledge of performance - feedback related to how well movements were performed
Common misconception
Types of feedback are often confused with types of guidance.
Ensure students are able to differentiate between guidance, which is infomation needed to understand how to perform a skill, and feedback which is information about how well it is being performed.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
the audience clapping
the referee
the child's parents/guardians encouraging them
themselves
Exit quiz
6 Questions
information received from the performer's senses
information received from outside of the performer e.g. from a coach
feedback focussed on the correct aspects of performance
feedback focussed on the incorrect aspects of performance
feedback about the outcome only
feedback about the performance only