Article: Feedback effects: field-based findings.

As a teacher once said, "Don't tell me what works in the lab with one student; show me what works with a class of 35 children, all moving at once."

Teachers should provide feedback that is specific, congruent to the task, and corrective (Magill, 1989; Schmidt, 1987). Without feedback, students will not be able to learn to perform movements correctly on subsequent trials. The types of feedback usually are given are shown in table 1 (Siedentop, 1991).

Although motor learning research has shown the importance of feedback to skill acquisition in laboratory settings (e.g., Magill & Wood, 1986; Salomoni, Schmidt, & Walter, 1984), results from field-based studies in ...

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