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Unit 3: Factors Affecting Performance
Quick questions on Feedback in skill learning: WACE Physical Education Studies Unit 3
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What is the functions of feedback?Show answer
Feedback serves two main functions. It motivates, encouraging the learner to continue and try again, and it corrects, providing the information needed to change and improve the movement. Well timed feedback also reinforces correct performance so it is repeated. Too much feedback can overload a beginner or create dependence, so the amount is managed.
What is matching feedback to the stage of learning?Show answer
In the cognitive stage the learner cannot interpret their own performance well, so the coach provides frequent, simple, positive augmented feedback, mainly knowledge of results, on the main idea of the skill. In the associative stage the coach provides more specific knowledge of performance to refine technique, with a mix of positive and corrective feedback. In the autonomous stage the performer relies heavily on their own intrinsic feedback, and augmented feedback becomes less frequent and more technical, often delivered after performance.
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