Glenn Kuntz

Helpful Feedback as Part of an Extrinsic Practice

As an instructor, I do focus on both intrinsic and extrinsic practices within my classroom. As a whole, we do live an extrinsic world with k-12 students getting many motivators of candy/rewards/etc. For adult learners, this is "taught" by rewards from credit cards, focusing on getting "points" on bonus cards, etc. To help explain and teach other practical aspects to students that not all "extrinsic" motivators will be there in the working world I try to help bridge the two motivators by focusing on helpful feedback to students. One thing that instructors often do not do is give helpful feedback to good students. Research has shown that even good students would like to know what they did really well so they can repeat this on future endeavors. Do you give helpful feedback to good students? If so, what are some examples? If not, how will you plan to implement in the future or why will you not implement this practice?