{"id":1574,"date":"2014-01-13T14:40:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T12:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=1574\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T14:41:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T12:41:25","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>feedback<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my language critique course last fall, during the session where I give feedback to the participants, one student in response asked me what was good in his story. His question made me wonder why feedback always focuses on areas that need improvement, even if the work is generally well written. This reflection got a boost from <i>Kimmo Svinhufvud<\/i>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/helda.helsinki.fi\/handle\/10138\/41122\">dissertation<\/a>published in November. It deals with the interaction that happens as part of guiding a master&#8217;s thesis at the Helsinki University. According to Svinhufvud, feedback on written work includes questions, praise, and especially problem-solution feedback, in which the critic highlights a problem and then offers a solution. In this framework the person receiving the feedback can easily interpret questions and even positive comments as corrections in disguise. In education we promote sandwich feedback, in which the critical center is enclosed by a positive beginning and ending. Svinhufvud criticizes the model, because it trivializes praise and turns it into a pro forma opening. Positive feedback should instead have its own place in the feedback, and positive comments should be as detailed and analytical as critical ones. After the student comment I made a point of including a place for positive comments in my feedback classes; Svinhufvud\u2019s dissertation gave me a reason to expand it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my language critique course last fall, during the session where I give feedback to the participants, one student in response asked me what was good in his story. His question made me wonder why feedback always focuses on areas that need improvement, even if the work is generally well written. This reflection got a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}