Effects Of Immediate Feedback Research Articles

Students’ reflection on immediate feedback during formative assessment

Background: Providing immediate feedback to students has shown improvement in students’ knowledge, understanding, and confidence as it helps in identifying lacunae and loopholes in learning process. Despite the usefulness of feedback, common complaint from students is that they usually do not receive feedback immediately in their learning process. We also face similar situation with our students in institute. The aim of this study was to find out effect of giving immediate feedback and explore the views of medical students on immediate feedback during formative assessment. Aims and Objectives: The aims of this study were to evaluate the effect of immediate feedback on the medical students’ learning in medical education. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in Department of Physiology, GMERS Medical College, Valsad on 183 students of 1st MBBS after ethical approval. Two types of modules were prepared on using “Hot Potatoes” software version 6.3. Module-1: Test 1 without feedback: consist of 20 MCQs and Module-2: Test 2 with feedback: consist of 20 MCQs, provide immediate feedback for each option of MCQ. Two modules were given one by one on WhatsApp group on mobile phone. Reflection writing and feedback from students were taken after that. Results: The qualitative data collected provided important information about the immediate feedback. Feedback responses of students on the questionnaire were analyzed using Likert scale. The Likert scale values were in strongly agree/agree part for Module-2 (with feedback). The students believed that immediate feedback was very helpful in clearing concepts, finding out lacunae, improvement in confidence, and self-learning. An excellent way for self-assessment and improved their deeper understanding of content areas. The students enjoyed innovative way of learning compared to conventional learning. Conclusion: Immediate feedback using this type of feedback modules should be implemented to improve students’ knowledge, understanding, memory, and confidence and can be used as self-directed learning tool.

The influence of feedback on detection and recognition memory of fake news: an experimental study from the perspective of signal detection theory

The objective of this research was to analyze the effect of immediate feedback on the detection and recognition memory of false and true news, using the Signal Detection Theory. For this, two experiments were carried out; in experiment one no feedback was presented; in experiment 2 immediate feedback was included. The experiments were divided into 2 phases: discrimination and news recognition memory. It included the participation of 93 young people, who judged the veracity or falsity of the news using a forced choice task, in 24 news with two types of attributes, physical and non-physical. The results indicated in experiment one, that the non-physical attributes alter the detection and memory recognition of the news, making the physical attribute of the font color irrelevant. In experiment 2, immediate feedback was found to improve detection, but not recognition, which is impaired by non-physical attributes as in experiment one. These findings show the need to present news readers with different sources of immediate verification to improve their detection, as well as the need to generate good information verification practices in the communication sector.

The effect of immediate feedback on mathematics learning achievement

Real facts at school show that the ability to solve problems is still considered low. Most students still make many mistakes in solving math problems. These mistakes must be directed to the right path to minimize repeated mistakes. Immediate feedback can be a solution to correct these errors. The purpose of this study was to examine the immediate feedback by the teacher during learning and their relationship to student learning achievement. The participants in this study consisted of 30 students from seventh grade. Data were collected from the final score on the number of subjects. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and paired sample t-tests to describe before dan after giving immediate feedback. Paired sample t-test analysis was also used to describe the relationship between immediate feedback on learning achievement. This study revealed a significant difference between immediate feedback and learning achievement. The final mean value shows the pretest average is higher than the posttest average. There is a positive relationship between immediate feedback and mathematics learning achievement. These findings can be used as a teacher's attention in providing feedback immediately during learning.

Go Formative for Formative Assessment Feedback on the 10th Graders’ Material Comprehension and Learning Motivation

Feedback on formative assessment is a teacher's effort to help students with learning difficulties by responding to their evaluation results, especially on HOTS-based evaluations, which have a higher level of completion. Therefore, this study aims to determine the effect of immediate feedback on improving Material Comprehension (MC) and Learning Motivation (LM). Unfortunately, the teacher needs to provide feedback due to several factors, one of which is time constraints due to teachers’ activity. This study aims to investigate the effect of Go Formative in providing immediate feedback on formative physics assessments on material comprehension and learning motivation enhancement of 10th-grade high school students. This research is quasi-experimental with a non-equivalent control group design involving two classes, namely the control and experimental classes. The two classes were selected by employing a simple random sampling technique. This study's results show a different effect of using Go Formative in providing quick feedback in improving students' material comprehension. The existence of these differences makes the provision of quick and immediate feedback through the Go Formative website a solution to overcome the obstacles experienced by teachers in carrying out formative assessments.

ManyClasses 1: Assessing the Generalizable Effect of Immediate Feedback Versus Delayed Feedback Across Many College Classes

Psychology researchers have long attempted to identify educational practices that improve student learning. However, experimental research on these practices is often conducted in laboratory contexts or in a single course, which threatens the external validity of the results. In this article, we establish an experimental paradigm for evaluating the benefits of recommended practices across a variety of authentic educational contexts—a model we call ManyClasses. The core feature is that researchers examine the same research question and measure the same experimental effect across many classes spanning a range of topics, institutions, teacher implementations, and student populations. We report the first ManyClasses study, in which we examined how the timing of feedback on class assignments, either immediate or delayed by a few days, affected subsequent performance on class assessments. Across 38 classes, the overall estimate for the effect of feedback timing was 0.002 (95% highest density interval = [−0.05, 0.05]), which indicates that there was no effect of immediate feedback compared with delayed feedback on student learning that generalizes across classes. Furthermore, there were no credibly nonzero effects for 40 preregistered moderators related to class-level and student-level characteristics. Yet our results provide hints that in certain kinds of classes, which were undersampled in the current study, there may be modest advantages for delayed feedback. More broadly, these findings provide insights regarding the feasibility of conducting within-class randomized experiments across a range of naturally occurring learning environments.

Fostering oral presentation skills by the timing of feedback: an exploratory study in virtual reality

Abstract Although scholars emphasised the essence of feedback delivered on virtual reality-based tasks, it remains unclear whether the acquisition of students’ oral presentation skills can be enhanced by the timing of feedback. An exploratory study, recently conducted in a Dutch university, explores the potential differential impact of immediate versus delayed feedback within a virtual reality-based task, in which students present to a virtual audience and receive feedback generated by the computer on presentation behaviour. By making use of an experimental study design, the potential effects of immediate feedback are compared with a control condition of a virtual reality-based presentation task with delayed feedback directly provided after the presentation. Performance assessments, including validated rubrics for oral presentation skills, were used for data collection. The results demonstrated no differences between the impact of immediate and delayed feedback on students’ presentation performance. However, significant differences in performance were traceable for students from differing study domains. As such, students following a technical study showed lower presentation scores in comparison to students from non-technical higher education curricula. More studies are needed to investigate comprehensive learning environments on students’ presentation skills in virtual reality, since combining different forms of feedback could foster students’ learning outcomes.

Is a Computerized Adaptive Test More Motivating Than a Fixed-Item Test?

Computer adaptive tests provide important measurement advantages over traditional fixed-item tests, but research on the psychological reactions of test takers to adaptive tests is lacking. In particular, it has been suggested that test-taker engagement, and possibly test performance as a consequence, could benefit from the control that adaptive tests have on the number of test items examinees answer correctly. However, previous research on this issue found little support for this possibility. This study expands on previous research by examining this issue in the context of a mathematical ability assessment and by considering the possible effect of immediate feedback of response correctness on test engagement, test anxiety, time on task, and test performance. Middle school students completed a mathematics assessment under one of three test type conditions (fixed, adaptive, or easier adaptive) and either with or without immediate feedback about the correctness of responses. Results showed little evidence for test type effects. The easier adaptive test resulted in higher engagement and lower anxiety than either the adaptive or fixed-item tests; however, no significant differences in performance were found across test types, although performance was significantly higher across all test types when students received immediate feedback. In addition, these effects were not related to ability level, as measured by the state assessment achievement levels. The possibility that test experiences in adaptive tests may not in practice be significantly different than in fixed-item tests is raised and discussed to explain the results of this and previous studies.

Effects of Immediate Feedback Using Bug-in-Ear With Paraeducators Working With Students With Autism

In today’s autistic-support classrooms, paraeducators are tasked with working with our neediest students yet report that they are unprepared for their roles despite attempts at training. The special education teachers who are tasked with coaching and supervising several paraeducators at a time in their classrooms report that they too are unprepared to work with paraeducators in this capacity. In this study, the authors examine the effects of the special education teacher providing immediate feedback via bug-in-ear to the paraeducator on increasing a specific teaching behavior, providing contingent specific praise. Two special education teachers and four paraeducators working in two separate autistic-support classrooms participated in the multiple-baseline across participants study. When immediate feedback from the teacher was introduced in the intervention condition, percentage of occurrences of contingent specific praise increased for all paraeducators and continued at high levels even when the intervention was faded. Rate of occurrences also increased. In addition, the special education teachers and paraeducators all rated the intervention as a beneficial technique they liked using and found motivating and helpful. Implications for classroom use are discussed.

Pre-service teacher use of communication strategies upon receiving immediate feedback

The purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of immediate feedback through bug-in-ear eCoaching on early childhood special education pre-service teachers’ use of communication strategies using an activity-based intervention approach. Three early childhood special education pre-service teachers participated in this study. A multiple-probe, single-case design was used to determine the effects of immediate feedback through bug-in-ear eCoaching on teachers’ use of communication strategies. Results indicate that immediate feedback through bug-in-ear eCoaching enhanced pre-service teachers’ use of communication strategies within small-group activities. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.

Threshold Effects of Speed-Monitoring Devices on the Speeding Behavior of Drivers

This paper summarizes an evaluation of a speed-monitoring system that provides speed warning feedback to drivers enrolled in a voluntary program. The field study aimed to determine the effects of immediate feedback on drivers, especially chronic speeders. Drivers with at least three speeding violations in the past 3 years were recruited through the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration. After a 2-week baseline period, the alert system was activated, and driving behavior was monitored for any changes for approximately 4 weeks. Subjects were monitored (silently) for a follow-up phase of 2 weeks. During the treatment phase, drivers received alerts when their speeds exceeded the posted speed limit by more than 8 mph. The findings are encouraging and suggest that verbal alerts are successful in producing short-term changes in driving behavior. Overall, the average proportion of speeding above the alert threshold declined significantly during the treatment phase, an indication that the alerts did have a deterring effect on speeding behavior. Once the alerts were silenced, there was evidence suggesting a sustained change in driving behavior for some participants. Although the proportion of speeding above the threshold was higher during the 2-week follow-up period than during the treatment phase, for some participants the follow-up speeds were lower than those recorded during the baseline phase. Although speeding was reduced during the treatment phase at speeds over the feedback threshold, much of this speeding appeared to have shifted down to just below the threshold. This finding raises an important question regarding optimal levels for setting thresholds for feedback on speeding behavior.

Effects of Covert Audio Coaching on Parents' Interactions with Young Children with Autism.

Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) frequently present intervention challenges for parents. Covert audio coaching (CAC) has not been studied with parents, nor as an intervention to teach household routines and tasks. Further, evidence of generalization with CAC is limited. We examined the effectiveness of immediate feedback via CAC on mothers' interactions with their children with ASD. Mothers learned to deliver effective prompts and praise, and generalized these interactions to novel (untrained) routines. Children increased the accuracy of training and generalization tasks after their mothers received the coaching intervention.

The relationship between adult EFL teachers' oral feedback practices and their beliefs

Abstract Although many experimental and classroom studies show the benefits of oral corrective feedback for second language acquisition, fairly little is known about the actual practice of oral feedback in classrooms and to what extent this practice reflects teachers' beliefs. The present study presents a comparison between the observation of ten adult EFL teachers and their stated beliefs about oral feedback. It appeared that most of the teachers were not fully aware of the amount of feedback they tended to provide, nor of the different types of correction they used. Even though all the teachers believed feedback to be important, they expressed concerns about interrupting students and provoking negative affective responses. This may explain why recasts, a more implicit type of feedback, were by far the most frequent method of correction in our data. Informing teachers of the results of corrective feedback research can encourage them to use a wider variety of techniques and possibly make their teaching more effective. On the other hand, empirical studies are needed that include the factors of student personality and affective responses and which compare the effects of immediate feedback to delayed error correction.

The Positive Effect of Immediate Feedback on Medical Student Education During the Surgical Clerkship

Feedback from faculty to medical students is vital in medical education. The objective of this study was to assess the feasibility and educational benefits of a program that incorporates seeking immediate feedback by students from their faculty during the third-year medical student core surgery clerkship. Using a crossover model, students in the intervention group sought daily feedback from their faculty surgeons, whereas those in the nonfeedback comparison group did not seek feedback. These groups crossed over every 2 weeks for the 8 surgical weeks of their 12-week clerkship. Weekly surveys, using 7-point Likert scales, were used by the participating students and surgical faculty to measure outcomes. Among 53 potential students, 33 were enrolled. Students reported significantly more weekly immediate feedback sessions in the experimental group (1.21 vs 0.67, p = 0.002). Additionally, in the experimental group, there were significantly more occasions where faculty surgeons provided specific guidance as to how students could further their education (1.25 vs 0.83, p = 0.02). Although not significant, there were trends toward the experimental group reporting their faculty feedback to be more specific, sufficient, and including both more positive and negative feedback. There were no significant differences in student self-assessments or faculty assessments of knowledge and skills. Student participation was a major impediment to this study. Despite the challenges, there appear to be real educational gains associated with immediate feedback. The results suggest that an immediate feedback program can be implemented and may enhance the dialog in the student-faculty relationship. Further research could focus on improving student participation and the quality of attending faculty feedback.

Effectiveness of clickers: Effect of feedback and the timing of questions on learning

Individual response devices or “clickers” are now being used in many classrooms as an active-learning component of courses. Educators may wonder whether clickers are truly beneficial to learning. This study was designed to examine whether clickers increase retention of lecture material over two days in a more controlled situation than the live classroom. Participants watched a video lecture and were either given clicker questions about the video or no clicker questions with a ‘test’ occurring two days later. The effect of immediate feedback and the timing of the questions (either throughout the video or all at the end) were assessed. It was found that clicker questions improved memory for material two days later compared to no-clicker controls, provided that immediate feedback was given about each question. Scores two days later actually improved compared to scores on the day of the video when feedback was given about the correct answers. The timing of clicker questions did not affect scores. Results are consistent with studies that took place in more ecologically valid but less controlled live classroom situations. The results may guide educators in the effective use of clickers.

Effects of Computer-Based Immediate Feedback on Foreign Language Listening Comprehension and Test-Associated Anxiety

This study investigated the effects of immediate feedback on computer-based foreign language listening comprehension tests and on intrapersonal test-associated anxiety in 72 English major college students at a Taiwanese University. Foreign language listening comprehension of computer-based tests designed by MOODLE, a dynamic e-learning environment, with or without immediate feedback together with the state-trait anxiety inventory (STAI) were tested and repeated after one week. The analysis indicated that immediate feedback during testing caused significantly higher anxiety and resulted in significantly higher listening scores than in the control group, which had no feedback. However, repeated feedback did not affect the test anxiety and listening scores. Computer-based immediate feedback did not lower debilitating effects of anxiety but enhanced students' intrapersonal eustress-like anxiety and probably improved their attention during listening tests. Computer-based tests with immediate feedback might help foreign language learners to increase attention in foreign language listening comprehension.

Effects of immediate feedback on learning auditory perceptual voice quality evaluation

The study investigated the effect of immediate feedback in training listeners to perceive subtle differences in voice quality, a perceptual skill that is important for speech-language pathologists. Sixty naive listeners were randomly assigned to a feedback group (Group F), a no feedback group (Group NF), and a no training group acting as a control group (Group C). The task was to evaluate the severity of a perceptual voice quality (breathiness) by using a reference-matching paradigm. All participants took part in three rating sessions (pre-training, 2 days after training and 1 week after training). Group F and Group NF participated in a training session immediately after the first rating session, where Group F practiced with immediate feedback given and Group NF practice with no immediate feedback given. The results showed that Group F and Group NF had significant improvement after training, but Group F did not retain the improvement in the third rating session. The use of a reference-matching training paradigm without giving frequent immediate feedback is suggested for auditory-perceptual voice evaluation training. The most effective frequency of immediate feedback is yet to be determined.

Immediate Feedback and Learning In Athletic Training Education

Context: Immediate feedback has been shown to improve student learning more efficiently than delayed feedback in lower-level general education courses. No research exists examining the effects of immediate feedback on learning in higher-level athletic training coursework. Objective: To determine if using the Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique (IF-AT) improves retention of information taught in upper-level athletic training courses better than traditional multiple choice (TMC) exams. The second purpose of this research was to determine students' perceptions of the IF-AT. Design: 2 x 2 randomized, crossover experimental design. Setting: A standard higher education classroom. Patients or Other Participants: A convenience sample of 23 students enrolled in an upper-level athletic training course. Interventions: Examination type (IF-AT and TMC) and examination session (initial and follow-up). Main Outcome Measures: Examination scores of the students on the initial examinations and the follow-up examinations. Results: The interaction between examination type and examination session was not significant; F(1,44) = .154, P = .696, 1-β = .067, ω2 = .015. Students did prefer the IF-AT over traditional multiple choice as evidenced by the survey. Conclusions: Using the IF-AT on the initial examination did not significantly improve students' scores on the follow-up examination compared to using the TMC format. However, students gave the IF-AT high scores on the satisfaction survey.

Effects of Immediate Feedback Delivered via Webcam and Bug-in-Ear Technology on Preservice Teacher Performance

University faculty and supervisors dedicated to the preparation of future teachers are facing more challenges than ever before in doing more with less. This includes supervising more preservice teachers in more schools, spread out over a wide geographic area. Feedback is essential to learning, and recent research suggests that the most effective feedback is immediate rather than delayed. New advances in technology may make the job of supervision more efficient and when used to provide immediate feedback, more effective as well. Research was conducted to evaluate the effects of using webcams and Bluetooth™ technology to deliver immediate feedback to special education preservice teachers in practicum placements from remote locations. Results suggest that immediate feedback provided via this technology was effective in increasing the targeted technique in all five preservice teachers who participated in the study. Each participant rated the intervention as acceptable. Implications for classroom application are discussed.

Factors affecting feeling-of-knowing in a medical intelligent tutoring system: the role of immediate feedback as a metacognitive scaffold

Previous studies in our laboratory have shown the benefits of immediate feedback on cognitive performance for pathology residents using an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) in pathology. In this study, we examined the effect of immediate feedback on metacognitive performance, and investigated whether other metacognitive scaffolds will support metacognitive gains when immediate feedback is faded. Twenty-three participants were randomized into intervention and control groups. For both groups, periods working with the ITS under varying conditions were alternated with independent computer-based assessments. On day 1, a within-subjects design was used to evaluate the effect of immediate feedback on cognitive and metacognitive performance. On day 2, a between-subjects design was used to compare the use of other metacognitive scaffolds (intervention group) against no metacognitive scaffolds (control group) on cognitive and metacognitive performance, as immediate feedback was faded. Measurements included learning gains (a measure of cognitive performance), as well as several measures of metacognitive performance, including Goodman-Kruskal gamma correlation (G), bias, and discrimination. For the intervention group, we also computed metacognitive measures during tutoring sessions. Results showed that immediate feedback in an intelligent tutoring system had a statistically significant positive effect on learning gains, G and discrimination. Removal of immediate feedback was associated with decreasing metacognitive performance, and this decline was not prevented when students used a version of the tutoring system that provided other metacognitive scaffolds. Results obtained directly from the ITS suggest that other metacognitive scaffolds do have a positive effect on G and discrimination, as immediate feedback is faded. We conclude that immediate feedback had a positive effect on both metacognitive and cognitive gains in a medical tutoring system. Other metacognitive scaffolds were not sufficient to replace immediate feedback in this study. However, results obtained directly from the tutoring system are not consistent with results obtained from assessments. In order to facilitate transfer to real-world tasks, further research will be needed to determine the optimum methods for supporting metacognition as immediate feedback is faded.

Effects of immediate feedback and errorless learning on recognition memory processing in young and older adults

Age-related memory decline appears to be due to impaired recollection whereas familiarity may be intact. An intervention was therefore designed with the aim of optimising use of this intact sense of familiarity. A continuous face recognition paradigm was used which required detection of repeats in a long series. The experimental intervention consisted of immediate feedback on response accuracy and avoidance of errors by discouraging guessing. Experimental and control interventions were compared by recruiting 40 people aged under 30 years or over 60 years for six 45-minute training sessions. The elderly participants initially showed a more lax response criterion than young people but the experimental intervention reversed this effect so that by the end of training the elderly participants were less prone to false alarms than the younger participants. However, there was only limited evidence of generalisation of this training effect to other memory tasks and no effect on recognition sensitivity. This study demonstrates that combined feedback and errorless learning allow elderly people to adjust their response criterion during recognition memory tasks. Taken together with previous encouraging studies, it seems that this training approach might have potential as a therapy for age-related memory impairment. However this would require development of additional methods to enhance generalisation beyond trained tasks and to elicit improvements in sensitivity as well as reduction of false alarms. The separate contributions of feedback and errorless learning also need to be investigated.