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32: Feedback
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32.6 Recommendations for future research
To summarize areas in feedback research that need further
attention, this author offers the following suggestions:
- Examine how feedback functions within a wider variety of learning
domains. Higher-order learning such as concept acquisition, rule use,
problem solving, and the use of cognitive strategies offer a rich
source for researchers to explore.
- Analyze individual learner motivations and attitudes and prescribe
feedback based on factors such as tenacity, self-efficacy, attributions,
expectancy, and goal structure.
- Identify measurable variables that can reflect internal cognitive
and affective processes of learners that might potentially affect
how feedback is perceived and utilized.
- Examine how feedback functions within constructivist learning environments
and test new feedback strategies within these environments.
- Examine the role of monitoring and how both external and internal
feedback generation effects the learning from a viewpoint of self-regulation.
- As technologies continue to advance, design feedback that utilizes
the improved capabilities for instruction.
- Continue to identify and test interactive patterns between the
leamer, environment, individual internal knowledge construction, and
varying types of feedback.
One could venture to say that no learning would occur
unless some type of feedback mechanism was at work. What we do know is
that feedback serves a critical function in knowledge acquisition, regardless
of the particular learning paradigm we are choosing to examine it through.
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