Notes
Outline
Providing Feedback To Learners
Dennis Baker, Ph. D.
Director, Office of Faculty Development
OUCOM/CORE
Overview
Introductions
Overview
Feedback Situations
Areas of Learner Difficulties
Definition of Feedback
Feedback vs. Evaluation
Characteristics of Effective Feedback
Feedback Strategies (The ARCH Model)
Application of Feedback Strategies
Objectives
Define and state the purpose(s) of feedback.
Explain the difference between feedback and evaluation.
State the characteristics of “effective” feedback.
Compare the collaborative approach to feedback versus the authority oriented approach.
Given a feedback situation, apply effective feedback strategies to explain what you would do.
Describe and utilize the ARCH model approach to feedback.
Feedback Situations
 What are some feedback situations you have recently encountered?
How did it go?
A Feedback Scenario
 Situation:
A third year medical student is beginning a clerkship in your office.  During the first week you have noted that the learner takes a much longer time in evaluating patients than previous students.  It is early in the third year and the student has had one clinical experience in the hospital setting only.  You decide to have a formal feedback session with the student.
Question:
How would you conduct the session?  What are some principles you would follow in conducting the session?
Areas of Learner Difficulties
 Lack of Knowledge
 Psychomotor Skills
 Lack of Interpersonal Skills with Patients
 Personal Problems
 Disorganized
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Feedback
Information provided to a learner in order to help him to continue the behavior or to  modify the behavior.
Information that assists learners in correcting their course.
Information a learner uses to “improve.”
Information a learner uses to help him accomplish a set of learning objectives.
Feedback & Evaluation: The Difference
Feedback is information and is “formative” in nature.
Evaluation is a quantification or judgment about a performance ( e.g. grade of A, rating of 5 on a scale of 1 to 5)
Feedback at South Pointe
What would learners at South Pointe say about receiving feedback.
Characteristics of Effective Feedback
What are some characteristics of effective feedback not seen in the following video?
Characteristics of Effective Feedback
Feedback should be:
Well timed and expected
Based on observation or reliable information
Specific, not generalizations
Regulated in quantity
Phrased in descriptive non-evaluative language
Undertaken with the teaching and student working as allies, with common goals
Characteristics of Effective Feedback
Some characteristics of effective feedback seen in this video.
A Feedback Model
A
R
C
H
Feedback Model
A = Ask for self-assessment
R = Reinforcement
C = Correct
H = Help by building improvement plan with learner
A Feedback Scenario
 Situation:
A third year medical student is beginning a clerkship in your office.  During the first week you have noted that the learner takes a much longer time in evaluating patients than previous students.  It is early in the third year and the student has had one clinical experience in the hospital setting only.  You decide to have a formal feedback session with the student.
Question:
How would you conduct the session?  What are some principles you would follow in conducting the session?
“Observation is
the currency of feedback.”