Michele McNeilly

With Elaborative feedback, it is where you first state is the student's answer was correct or not. After doing so, you would continue to describe as to why the answer is what it is, and might even talk about how that may connect into a related topic thus broadening the student's knowledge which may be helpful in the future for recalling answers. Ex 1. Yes, the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology was Sigmund Freud. Sigmund's theories under the school were focused on the use of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology with the help of dialogue between him and his… >>>

I, like everyone else, have stress in my life. There are the personal obligations and the work obligations that can cause a fair amount of stress for a person. I try to find time to relax and to put aside those stress factors with some "me time". I will spend a few hours painting on the weekend, I write in my journal to get out some pent up stress or go see a mindless movie. Also I will go out to dinner with friends, which is what I call "us time" where we do not have to bring our stress… >>>

I work as a tutor for several classes at the 2-4 year college where I work. When I work with a student I prefer to use the elaborative style of feedback. I feel it helps the student to not only to receive a positive or negative feed back but helps to explain why that answer is so which provide details that may help for future memory. Sometimes when I use this type of feedback with incorrect answers, the students will understand the mistake from the helpful information I try to provide and evetually are able to determine the correct answer… >>>