A Level PE - Feedback

A Level PE - Feedback:

• Involves using the information that is available to the performer either during or after performing a skill to alter future performance
• It is needed for learning to take place
• Can be either intrinsic or extrinsic 
• Intrinsic feedback comes during the movement from your senses
• Extrinsic feedback comes from external sources, and is an important part of coaching 
• Feedback comes in 2 forms; Knowledge of performance (KoP) or knowledge of results (KoR)

The Importance of Feedback:

• Visual feedback can help a performer form a mental picture of the perfect model of a skill
• Demonstrations should always be corrected using feedback as performers will try and imitate the demonstration
• Verbal feedback should be restricted in early stages as too much can confuse the performer due to lack of attentional capacity
• Questions about a previous performance is a form of feedback
• Feedback is important to a coach teaching the skill, as knowledge of performance is a form of improving skill level

Feedback Should Be:

• Easy to understand
• Concise
• Specific to the athletes sport
• Positive and highlights strengths
• Not too much, but enough to make improvements
• Constructive - focus on a weakness and how to improve them

Functions of Feedback - MRI:

• Feedback Motivates, Reinforces and Informs performers (MRI)
• Motivates as info concerning success or failure can be motivational
• Reinforces as positive reinforcement increases the chance of the performer repeating the performance
• Informs -> feedback can provide information about errors and, can help correct mistakes

Personalities and Feedback:

• People with different personalities will look at and react to feedback differently, there are 2 types of feedback:

1. Need to Achieve (NACH) -> more likely to look at feedback as a constructive thing to help them achieve their own personal goals
2. Need to Avoid Failure (NAF)-> more likely to take feedback as a negative and react badly to it (like you're criticising them) 

Types of Feedback:

1. Positive Feedback
2. Negative…