Complications Of Feedback In Education And Student Performance

2.Feedback in education and students performance 2.1 What is feedback

The word “feedback “ is used in different fields especially in education system . It represents the process of providing information about some ones performance .The main purpose of feedback in education is to confirm or gain an understanding about students knowledge. Feedback can be represented by answers of a general test. Feedback is also analyzed by different scholars and they give their own definition and explanations about it.

Webster’s (2001) continues to define feedback as “a process in which the factors that produce a result are themselves modified, corrected, strengthened, etc. by that result” and “a response, as one that sets such a process in motion”

There are to many types of feedback but in this chapter of research are going to be included only two of them :positive and negative .There are many researchers that are don accordingly the impacts that those types of feedback have over students . According to Kluger and DeNisi (1996) both types of feedback (positive and negative) are beneficial in the learning process .Even positive feedback even negative one can help in the improvement of performance of students or they can effect negatively by making them lazy or discourage them .All this is depended on the way how it is transmited. In general to increase student motivation and self efficacy teachers in general use positive feedback to do that on his research (Deci et al.,1999) show that: Positive feedback, however, can increase the likelihood that students will return to or persist in an activity and self-report higher interest in the

Feedback can be given in a differentiate way from all educators ,but the only condition is that the given feedback should be effective . It should include in itself all the conditions which make it acceptable. Feedback in order to be effective firstly should be reliable, true, have impact over students progress and of course it should be given in the right time.

Furthermore Bookhart (2008) in his research claim that :“Good feedback contains information that a student can use, which means that the student has to be able to hear and understand it.(Bookhart,2008:2 )Which means that students do not like to listen what they cant understand for this reason feedback to be effective should not only increase their academically skills or correct their mistakes but it also has to be attractive for their ears and mind. t