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Meaningful feedback through a sociocultural lens.
Subha Ramani1,2, Karen D Könings3, Shiphra Ginsburg4
1Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Medical Teacher
|September 25, 2019
Summary
This guide offers strategies for effective feedback conversations, focusing on performance improvement and professional growth for educators and learners. It integrates sociocultural, politeness, and self-determination theories to enhance learning environments and foster learner development.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Educational Psychology
Background:
- Feedback is crucial for performance improvement and professional growth in educational settings.
- Recent research highlights the sociocultural nature of feedback interactions.
- Theoretical frameworks from sociocultural, politeness, and self-determination theories inform effective feedback strategies.
Purpose of the Study:
- To provide a framework and practical strategies for promoting meaningful feedback conversations.
- To emphasize learner growth, performance improvement, and professional development.
- To guide teachers, learners, and institutions in fostering a positive feedback culture.
Main Methods:
- Utilizing key concepts from sociocultural, politeness, and self-determination theories.
- Adopting a learner-centric perspective to analyze feedback conversations.
- Reviewing current feedback research and literature to inform practical strategies.
Main Results:
- Teachers play a key role in creating safe learning climates and fostering self-awareness through educational alliances.
- Institutions can enhance feedback culture by promoting growth mindsets and learning goal orientation.
- Congruence between unwritten values, espoused values, and daily behaviors is critical for effective feedback.
Conclusions:
- Implementing practical strategies can foster learner growth, self-assessment, and reflection.
- A supportive institutional culture is essential for optimizing feedback processes.
- Aligning institutional values and behaviors ensures meaningful feedback conversations.
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